Re: Augusta: An open source Ada 2012 compiler (someday?)

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 20/03/2014 11:23, Lucretia a écrit :
>> I am not as naive as I probably sound. I fully understand that such a
>> > project is massive and not likely to actually ever be completed.
> As long as you don't expect all the annexes, I don't see why not.
> 
All those who have been involved in an Ada compiler will tell you that
it is a lot more difficult than it appears, unless you stick to the
Pascal subset and don't care for validation.

In the early days of Ada, we have seen compilers announcing proudly that
they passed 95% of the validation and that delivery was expected in a
few weeks - they never succeeded to pass the remaining 5%.

For example, and as a test, make sure you are able to understand the
implications of 4.3.3 (a nightmare for code generation), or 13.14, or
3.10.2(3/2)...

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