From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
Subject: Re: GNAT with LLVM -> Java Script
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 00:36:18 +0200
Date: 2014-10-17T00:36:18+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ph93$1d2$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1703052331435164910.517977laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org>
On 16.10.14 17:10, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> Brian Drummond <brian3@shapes.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> That was the DragonEgg project, wasn't it? I got the impression it
>> foundered on some shortcoming of LLVM for non-C languages; not certain
>> which, but possibly the one regarding nested functions that Tristan has
>> overcome with ghdl.
>
> No, DragonEgg was the plugin that followed, think that's dead also.
>
> But you're right, the nested function thing was a problem but I'm certain
> Duncan said he was working will llvm way back to sort it out. Don't know
> how far it got.
Apple's Swift language is using LLVM, and it has nested functions.
In fact, closures. Maybe this support can be stripped down to Ada's needs?
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2014-10-15 1:06 GNAT with LLVM -> Java Script David Botton
2014-10-15 1:47 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-15 2:54 ` David Botton
2014-10-15 9:15 ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-15 9:59 ` Lucretia
2014-10-15 13:10 ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-16 15:10 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-16 22:36 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2014-10-17 7:38 ` duncan.sands
2014-10-17 10:53 ` Brian Drummond
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