From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea451393a6c97734 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-20 08:05:02 PST Path: supernews.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!oleane.net!oleane!nnrp.oleane.net!not-for-mail From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Mixing Cygnus & Gnat compilers on the same machine Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:45:45 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: <9bpj33$eq8$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net> References: <9bkd51$530$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3ADDEEAA.D8F16935@bigfoot.de> <9bkt30$asm$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3ADE4B03.68BA6651@bigfoot.de> <9bmphh$1jt$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9bpfgk$1gb$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr X-Trace: s1.read.news.oleane.net 987778980 15176 195.25.228.57 (20 Apr 2001 15:03:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:03:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:7042 Date: 2001-04-20T16:45:45+02:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" a �crit dans le message news: 9bpfgk$1gb$1@nh.pace.co.uk... > As for my apparent misconception about how Gnat would potentially move to > different platforms, let me ask this: If Gnat and gcc merge, doesn't that > mean that the Ada front end is now hooked to the normally distributed gcc > back end? I noticed on the web site for gcc > (http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html) that they talk about front ends > for a variety of languages and my understanding was that the various front > ends are - or could be - built together much as Gnat will translate Ada or > C. Don't forget that there is more to a compiler than translating code. You need an implementation of the whole run-time library, and that will not be automatically available for all targets supported by gcc. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr