Re: new Ada compiler

[Nick Roberts <nick.roberts@acm.org>]

Andrew Carroll wrote:

> Anyone know the status of the new Ada compiler?  Is it called Ada2x?  I
> remember reading about it on here before but I didn't keep the mailings from
> the past.  Is there a website?  Thanks,

The new compiler for the AdaOS project is going to be called ECLAT -- 
Experimental Compiler Library and Tools -- and I'm afraid it's still very 
much at the construction stage at the moment.

I think a reasonable estimate at when the first version will be ready is 
2005 or 2006, and it will incorporate the new features of a language 
revision, assuming there is one by then (which now seems likely).

The first target will be IA-32 basic (based on the original Compaq386 PC) 
standalone. This will produce a directly bootable binary image, requiring 
no run time support, but with limitations (e.g. no tasking). Initially, 
there will be almost no optimisations.

More targets and optimisations will be progressively added.

There's no website for ECLAT yet. I'll start a project on SourceForge or 
BerliOS some time in the future.

-- 
Nick Roberts