Re: Mixing Cygnus & Gnat compilers on the same machine

["Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>]

Marin David Condic
>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. (or Cygnus will translate C or C++) Maybe it requires some additional
>tinkering to get the front ends connected and operating together

I'd expect that one would have to port the run-time support part of the
compiler. If you have a target which require no run-time support, then you
should be able to use gnat out of the box.

However, there might be trouble with the generated code that would require a
porting effort. To what degree this is the case is not something I can
answer.


Greetings,