From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
Subject: Re: ANN: Kickstarter for beginning work on a new open-source Compiler
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:41:13 +0100
Date: 2014-03-22T13:41:13+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bp5enaF87mnU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lgjoeb$anh$1@dont-email.me>
On 14-03-22 11:25 , Dirk Craeynest wrote:
> In article <87txaqd28v.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org>,
> Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
>> "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:
>>> FYI, Gnat was always written in Ada, bootstrapped from the Alsys
>>> compiler.
>>
>> Really? I always thought it was bootstrapped from Ada/Ed?
>
> Yes, really. The first successful bootstrap of GNAT, using the Alsys
> Ada 83 compiler, was announced at the Ada-Europe conference in June
> 1993 in Paris (by Robert Dewar, IIRC).
>
> And no, it wasn't by using Ada/Ed, as that was an interpreter
> and didn't generate any object code or executable.
The way you worded that suggests that Ada/Ed being an interpreter would
have prevented using it to bootstrap GNAT, but of course that is not so.
As long as *GNAT* was able to generate an executable, one could have
used Ada/Ed to execute GNAT (albeit through interpretation) to compile
the GNAT source code into an executable GNAT.
--
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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2014-03-18 23:23 ANN: Kickstarter for beginning work on a new open-source Compiler Shark8
2014-03-19 9:06 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-03-19 13:02 ` Peter Chapin
2014-03-19 13:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-03-19 22:11 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-03-20 14:56 ` Robert A Duff
2014-03-19 21:59 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-03-19 22:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-03-20 20:41 ` Shark8
2014-03-20 23:04 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-03-20 0:12 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-03-20 0:36 ` Peter Chapin
2014-03-20 0:52 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-03-20 12:10 ` Simon Wright
2014-03-20 12:45 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-03-20 13:22 ` Simon Wright
2014-03-20 14:13 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-03-20 14:17 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-03-21 2:13 ` Lucretia
2014-03-21 5:23 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-03-21 5:33 ` Lucretia
2014-03-21 6:43 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-03-21 22:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-03-22 1:13 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-03-22 6:27 ` Tero Koskinen
2014-03-22 7:02 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-03-24 20:50 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-03-24 22:42 ` Qun-Ying
2014-03-25 15:16 ` Tero Koskinen
2014-03-20 15:27 ` Robert A Duff
2014-03-20 21:06 ` Simon Wright
2014-03-21 16:07 ` Robert A Duff
2014-03-23 17:52 ` Simon Wright
2014-03-19 14:25 ` ANN: " Stephen Leake
2014-03-19 19:55 ` Shark8
2014-03-19 22:28 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-03-20 17:55 ` Shark8
2014-03-20 17:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-03-19 22:49 ` Brian Drummond
2014-03-20 10:21 ` Lucretia
2014-03-20 23:35 ` Stephen Leake
2014-03-21 8:17 ` Simon Wright
2014-03-23 21:14 ` erlo
2014-03-23 22:36 ` Simon Wright
2014-03-24 20:31 ` erlo
2014-03-19 21:04 ` Alan Browne
2014-03-19 22:22 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-03-20 20:30 ` Shark8
2014-03-21 2:18 ` Lucretia
2014-03-21 21:51 ` Shark8
2014-03-22 5:48 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-03-22 6:01 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-03-24 21:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-03-22 9:14 ` Ludovic Brenta
2014-03-22 10:15 ` Pascal Obry
2014-03-22 10:25 ` Dirk Craeynest
2014-03-22 12:41 ` Niklas Holsti [this message]
2014-03-22 14:59 ` Dirk Craeynest
2014-03-22 16:20 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-03-22 17:05 ` Ludovic Brenta
2014-03-24 6:41 ` Shark8
2014-03-24 6:16 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-03-22 8:38 ` ANN: " Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-03-22 19:28 ` Stephen Leake
2014-03-22 20:39 ` Shark8
2014-03-24 1:16 ` Stephen Leake
2014-03-24 6:40 ` Shark8
2014-03-25 20:04 ` Stephen Leake
2014-03-25 20:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-03-20 21:35 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-03-21 22:19 ` Shark8
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