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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Verified compilers?
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On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:49:53 +0000, Bill Findlay wrote:

> On 09/03/2012 13:56, in article jjd26i$k12$1@dont-email.me, "Brian
> Drummond" <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:38:39 +0000, Bill Findlay wrote:
>> 
>>> On 08/03/2012 10:23, in article jja1b4$8q1$1@dont-email.me, "Brian
>>> Drummond" <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:04:04 +0100, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Oh.  And who verifies that the silicon is correct?
...
>> One area, directly germane to the question above, is that there is a
>> lot of commonality between the SPARK subset of Ada, and the
>> synthesisable subset of VHDL
...
> Interesting point.

... but I don't know where to take it. I believe ghdl (VHDL compiler) is 
largely written in Ada, so there are some sources to play with. Between 
that and the SPARK-GPL sources, there must be a starting point for some 
investigation.

But finding time - maybe when I retire!
Or funding...

- Brian