From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 21 Jul 93 14:11:24 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu! src.honeywell.com!aristotle!tap@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas A Peterson) Subject: Re: Is there a GNU ADA compiler? Message-ID: List-Id: >>>>> On 20 Jul 1993 20:11:37 -0500, vanyel@sleepy.cc.utexas.edu (Bob Vanyel) s aid: > Along these same lines... I read in the FAQ for this list that there >> is a GNU Ada9x compiler in the makings that is suposed to be due out in >> late 1993. How far along is it? When approximately will it be out? >> Thanks. FYI: Here is the release message I received.... Date: Tue, 6 Jul 93 17:35:08 -0400 From: banner@LANG9.CS.NYU.EDU (Bernard Banner) To: gnat-chat@cs.NYU.EDU Subject: Release schedule for GNAT First Release of GNAT. ---------------------- We are scheduling the first release of GNAT for Friday July 9. The slight delay will allow us to release an integrated system with a single executable, that is to say a product whose interface is that of other GCC compilers. The systems that were demonstrated at Ada-Europe and at WAdaS contained separate executables for front-end and back-end that communicated through files, a structure that we feel is inappropriate for a GNU product, unnecessarily inefficient, and, well, ugly. Between now and July 9, source files and executables together with documentation on the structure and use of the system will start appearing in the anonymous ftp directory "pub/gnat" on cs.nyu.edu (128.122.140.24). We will broadcast a message to the gnat mailing list when all components are available. We apologize for this slight delay, which is not due to any technical difficulties but simply the desire to release a better-built system. We remind our eager users that this is a preliminary release. The fact that this release is bootstrapped, i.e. is sufficiently strong to compile itself, is a nice proof of existence of GNAT but no more than that: the system is currently only an implementation of a subset of Ada83 (enough of a subset to write a compiler!) and we do not expect to have a reasonably complete Ada 9X system until the TriAda conference. We think that the parser (full Ada 9X) of the current version, the interesting library management system, and the overall performance of the system, will make this early release interesting to the Ada community, even in its embryonic form.