From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM
Date: 1997/09/17
Date: 1997-09-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.874545928@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EGM1vM.6J.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com
Tucker said
<<The AdaMagic front end was written in ANSI C. One reason was to avoid
the bootstrapping problem, which was profound for us since we
weren't building a general purpose backend, and we wanted to be the
first to validate an Ada 95 compiler (albeit for a 24-bit embedded
target).>>
I don't see your point here. if your compiler is an Ada compiler written
in C, it cannot be bootstrapped anyway. Furthermore, your first target
was clearly a cross compiler, so you could have chosen any host for which
an Ada 83 compiler was available.
I understand there may be other reasons, but I don't quite see this
reason ...
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1997-09-11 0:00 ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM Robert Dewar
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-13 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1997-09-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Jay Han
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-21 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-09-15 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-15 0:00 ` Mark L. Fussell
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-19 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-23 0:00 ` multi-language to JVM compilers? W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-19 0:00 ` translating to Ada, was Re: ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM Tom Moran
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1997-09-15 0:00 Marc Wachowitz
1997-09-20 0:00 Marc Wachowitz
1997-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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