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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:30:57 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: LLVM and Ada Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 19:31:01 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <7eaadf74-c55f-4c00-8f13-bf027cce130e@googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 166.170.26.244 X-Trace: sv3-Mppg0JgbpqdMaJ8rMP90ozbPL94jhMbxNiM2VNB/NY8Oyg68rMv41LM/Caz/FGV/PNYre74kRSHkwzV!L1N/5dx6XRTGjFQEJwfvb56V8gv4i8MlxUhcuHafTmNnUU2n5cw+lbzTmVUyqNebvUFAa7X6VDg0!wQf08HTN/9tiAWc8/8/KMyk10NQV X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2672 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:32148 Date: 2016-10-20T19:31:01-04:00 List-Id: On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 07:28:01 -0700 (PDT), Vincent DIEMUNSCH declaimed the following: >I heard that Duncan Sands has ported GNAT to LLVM in the DraggonEgg project, therefore I have two questions : For a study at work I had to get DragonEgg working... It took me three Linux variants (my immediate supervisor provided a VM apparently recommended by the client, and I tried using a VM install of Debian [primarily as Debian provided the repository as DVD images -- company firewall blocks apt-get except for the corporate approved Ubuntu image using a corporate maintained repository]) to find one which had an old enough GCC with which to build it. As I recall, I had revert from a 4.9 to a 4.3 GCC (or something that drastic). I couldn't even build 4.3 using 4.9 due to changes in the make system, and sure wasn't going to try to build sequentially 4.9 -> 4.8 -> 4.7 etc, until getting to the target variation. I managed to get it to build, and even produce bitcode from an Helloworld.adb. However -- it would require porting the Ada RTL to do anything meaningful... And since I didn't find anything in LLVM to produce a native binary -- other than having it convert the bitcode into native assembly for GCC to link -- it proved useless for the goal of porting an Ada application to a board that didn't have support from AdaCore. And, as mentioned, DragonEgg with Ada support is years out of date. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/