From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,85034d1ac78a66eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-23 11:38:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!not-for-mail From: David Starner Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Operating System Date: 23 Feb 2002 18:07:21 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: References: <5Tzc8.111999$H37.15018616@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com> <3C73F480.5010806@mail.com> <9ff447f2.0202220108.7f14c9bc@posting.google.com> <9ff447f2.0202222044.78c44b25@posting.google.com> Reply-To: starner@okstate.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e546f.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.3 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20312 Date: 2002-02-23T18:07:21+00:00 List-Id: On 22 Feb 2002 20:44:21 -0800, Adrian Hoe 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.) -- David Starner - starner@okstate.edu What we've got is a blue-light special on truth. It's the hottest thing with the youth. -- Information Society, "Peace and Love, Inc."