Re: Building an Ada compiler

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Raul said

"  Only a a couple of words :-), the idea behind GCC is a portable compiler
 with the only need to change the front-end to incorporate a new language
 and the back-end to add a new architecture so I think you could use the
 GNAT front-end and you could make a Mac back-end, about this last I have
 only heard about a language to describe it something similar to lex/yacc."

Well that's a bit confused, the language used for machine description
files has *nothing* whatsoever in common with lex and yacc (which have
precious little in common with one another for that matter). 

In any case, you don't need a new backend, you can use the existing PPC
and 68K backends. What you have to do is to modify the operating
environments, get tools like gdb, emacs, ld, make working etc.