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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,aa25848066ff06a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-22 11:04:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!news-out.newsfeeds.com!propagator2-maxim!feed-maxim.newsfeeds.com!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!sea-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arthur Griffith Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Getting More Shelf Publicity Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: ACS Internet - complaints to abuse@acsalaska.net Cache-Post-Path: prawn!unknown@209-112-164-4-dial-as1.hom.acsalaska.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:04:56 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.112.128.246 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: sea-read.news.verio.net 1061575496 209.112.128.246 (Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:04:56 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:04:56 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41796 Date: 2003-08-22T18:04:56+00:00 List-Id: The subject of the book is GCC and all of its languages. I didn't try to dig dig into any of the languages (other than some of the GCC variations to them), but only to explain how to install and run the compiler. Actually, I had to do a bit of extra work in describing Ada because the installation of it is in two phases--first by installing the GNAT compiler and then by installing the GCC Ada compiler. That was necessary because some of the source is in Ada. The rest of the source of GCC is in C and can be bootstrapped with any simple C compiler. It would be nice, and very helpful to Ada, if the bootstrap version of it were written in C. That way the installation of Ada would be duck soup. More people would try the language if it were easier to install. This is just a suggestion. I wish I had time to take on a project like a C bootstrap for Ada, but I am booked up (pardon the pun) for some time to come yet. Warren, thanks for checking out the book. On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:28:15 -0400, "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote: >I was happy to see the beginnings of fruit from putting >Ada (GNAT) into the GCC 3.x compiler. The book >"GCC: The Complete Reference" will expose more GCC >readers, to the existance of Ada and get the curious >started in it. There is a table of contents available >in the link below: > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0072224053/qid=1061299321/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7651020-7144655?v=glance&s=books > >The Ada sections are short, and the interfacing C to Ada >section is very short, but at least readers will become >more aware that it is there, and that it can coexist >in a C world.