Re: Ada Operating System

[David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu>]

On 22 Feb 2002 20:44:21 -0800, Adrian Hoe <byhoe@greenlime.com> wrote:
> I know there is ACVC test suite out there to certify Ada compilers
> before they reach out the market. But then, why still use C to write
> an Ada compiler?

Because GCC handles many languages, and there's a lot of work going into
GCC to improve the C, C++ and Fortran compilers that improve the Ada
compiler as a side effect. Because GCC handles pretty much every
platform known to man, as long as it's got 32 bits and runs some form of
Unix (or DOS or Windows or VMS.) While that doesn't nessecarily mean
they will run GNAT, it simplifies the problem to fixing up the threading
and exceptions (the latter I understand will go away once GNAT uses GCC
exceptions.)

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