Re: Writing a Mac Ada compiler

[vladimir@speedy.intrepid.com (Vladimir Vukicevic)]

In article <evans-090395084230@evans.pgh.pa.us> evans@evans.pgh.pa.us
(Arthur Evans Jr) writes:
> Were I going to do this project, I would start by studying
> Metrowerks, a more modern product than MPW that will likely take
> over MPW's market.  Since Apple has no visible plans to upgrade MPW
> for PowerPC, it seems to be a dead product.  But, I have no idea
> how easy it is, or even if it's possible, to implement another
> language under Metrowerks.  It now supports C, C++ and Pascal.

You can indeed add new 'translators' to metrowerks, much like you can
with gcc. However, the task of ripping out gnat from its gcc roots and
performing surgery to get the piece to fit into metrowerks would be
-significantly- harder than porting gcc. Metrowerks provides
information on how to write new translators; however, there is
virtually no chance that the tree structure they use is semi-
compatible with gcc; they might not even use this type of
'translating'.

However, if you do port GNAT to run under Metrowerks, please let me
know :-)

	-- Vladimir
	-- vladimir@intrepid.com