From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
Subject: Re: will ada always be supported by gcc?
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:39:23 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2011-11-21T20:39:23+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jaectr$2tt$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 52182933-b63f-46e0-8ab2-65a72fbb66fa@t38g2000prg.googlegroups.com
On 2011-11-21, Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> wrote:
>
> Well, since it's open source, I think you can save all the sources.
> Then even if all the GCC and GNAT developers decide to quit tomorrow
> and become stock brokers or musicians or whatever, you'll still have
> the sources and should still be able to compile them, as long as
> there's a C compiler available, which I think will be the case
> forever.
>
You need a working Ada compiler to be able to compile the gcc Ada
front end as the majority of the Ada front end is written in Ada.
This is checked for as part of the configure script.
Simon.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-20 2:15 will ada always be supported by gcc? leo.brewin
2011-11-20 4:08 ` anon
2011-11-20 19:37 ` John B. Matthews
2011-11-21 19:31 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-11-21 20:39 ` Simon Clubley [this message]
2011-11-21 21:39 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-11-21 22:17 ` Simon Wright
2011-11-23 2:28 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-11-23 15:05 ` Robert A Duff
2011-11-21 22:07 ` Robert A Duff
2011-11-21 23:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-11-22 0:36 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-11-22 10:04 ` Patrick Jakubowski
2011-11-21 23:38 ` Jerry
2011-11-23 2:38 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-11-22 20:07 ` Sebastian Doht
2011-11-23 3:00 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-11-23 3:01 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-11-23 12:19 ` Chad
2011-11-24 18:08 ` Lucretia
2011-11-25 23:30 ` Jerry
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