Re: Mixing Cygnus & Gnat compilers on the same machine

[Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>]

"Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> writes:

> Until such time as GNAT is merged with the "normal" gcc distribution*, it
> 
> *(Will this ever happen? Ada being part of the regular gcc distribution,
> that is. It would seem like it would be putting Ada in front of lots more
> people - don't know what that may do so the ACT business model, though...)

Being a C/C++/Perl programmer, and as someone who's just considering if
Ada 95 (Gnat) might be worth learning, I'd really appreciate if Gnat was
a real part of the GNU compiler collection, it would give a comfortable
feeling of a compiler which has up-to date code generators and is
well-maintained. Plus, an Ada compiler being distributed along with a
set of C, C++, Objective-C and Fortran compilers would greatly enlarge
the number of installed copies, thus offering more eyes to spot
problems, and enhancing portability. People could start, for example,
developing free software in Ada95 without requiring the possible users
to install a binary package.

Back to lurking ;-)

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Matthias Andree