Re: Dragonegg for GNAT/LLVM to get arm-apple-darwin ISA-target

[Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com>]

On Thursday, 12 June 2014 15:40:57 UTC+1, Dan'l Miller  wrote:
> http://dragonegg.llvm.org
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> LLVM's Dragonegg project reports that GNAT Ada works poorly (or not at all?) from GCC 4.7 onward, when using the LLVM back-end instead of GCC's back-end.  This is after GNAT Ada 4.5 worked well enough with the Dragonegg LLVM back-end and GNAT Ada 4.6 is considered to be working the best.
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> Is anyone in the Ada community actively engaged with the Dragonegg project to help fix the divergence between GNAT Ada 4.7 & onward and the Dragonegg LLVM backend of GCC 4.7 & onward?  AdaCore is unlikely to embrace the Dragonegg project.
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> The A#1 benefit of GNAT on Dragonegg's LLVM backend would be to have GNAT available for target ISAs that GCC no longer supports at all (or no longer supports well) but for which LLVM has active support, such as arm-apple-darwin for iOS development.

It's Duncan Sands' project, I don't know if he's still working on it. I'd rather prefer a direct Ada front end to LLVM so that's easier to integrate into Apple's toolchain.

I have heard the DragonEgg project is dead, but am not sure.

Luke.