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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.107.44.17 with SMTP id s17mr6153966ios.77.1477074816535; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 11:33:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.60.235 with SMTP id t40mr1237094otf.0.1477074816510; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 11:33:36 -0700 (PDT) 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!e187no1542368itc.0!news-out.google.com!203ni1074itk.0!nntp.google.com!66no1554864itl.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 11:33:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <36f46056-6126-4c0b-8955-9408e05d0708@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=87.91.37.131; posting-account=hya6vwoAAADTA0O27Aq3u6Su3lQKpSMz NNTP-Posting-Host: 87.91.37.131 References: <7eaadf74-c55f-4c00-8f13-bf027cce130e@googlegroups.com> <36f46056-6126-4c0b-8955-9408e05d0708@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: LLVM and Ada From: vincent.diemunsch@gmail.com Injection-Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 18:33:36 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:32157 Date: 2016-10-21T11:33:36-07:00 List-Id: Le vendredi 21 octobre 2016 15:47:06 UTC+2, jpark...@gmail.com a =C3=A9crit= =C2=A0: > The author of the GNAT LLVM compiler posted a few remarks on the subject = in 2014. A search of comp.lang.ada should pull up the thread easily enough.= I'll cut and paste the text for you. J. >=20 > no, there were no blocking technical problems. For example I got nested = function support working properly a gazillion years ago, as Luke says. Exc= eption handling took longer to be completely reliable, but that was also re= solved years ago too. In both cases changes needed to be made to LLVM, but= those changes are all old hat now. =20 All that happened is that I lost interest in the project and no-one stepped= forward to take it over. =20 That's really good news (for LLVM I mean :-) ) ! Thank you very much "J.". Regards, Vincent