Re: Porting GNAT to Debian Hurd

[Charles Hixson <charleshixson@earthling.net>]

Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> wrote in
news:yPoY6.3996$yp1.140358@www.newsranger.com: 

> In article
> <Xns90C7553D53700charleshixsonearthli@207.217.77.23>,
> Charles Hixson says...
>>
>>Exposing my ignorance:
>>... 
> This isn't just some strange coincidence. Just about *every*
> compiler works that way. GCC certianly does (you need a C

I was told that Algol was (one of?) the first to do that.  
Certainly the Fortrans that I had encountered previously had 
been written in FAP or MAP.

> ...
> o  There *is* an Ada compiler that outputs ANSI C
> (Intermetrics). 
Good.  That should make a port relatively straight-forwards.  
(Well, if you already have the code generation for a particular 
CPU, anyway.)

> o  ...
> o  Anyone with the technical chops to port
> GNAT to a new platform shouldn't have too much trouble
> figuring out how to build and use a GNAT cross-compiler. 
> ...
Well, that's not me.  Pity, in a way, but I've been trying to 
move further away from the hardware layer, not get closer to it.

> o  The good folks at ACT are looking at providing bootstraping
> binaries for some platforms already. (see
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-06/msg01055.html ) 

Nice.  That's a good reference.  And if only gnat1 and gnatbind 
are needed for the bootstrap, then things should be somewhat 
manageable, though it's still about 3M of compiled code (on my 
system).
> 
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