Re: Implementing an Ada compiler and libraries.

[Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>]

> > LLVM would be capable of this.
> 
> Then is not a cross-platform, I mean the only platform here is the VM.
> Otherwise, it could be doable. Though many static things which are
> platform-dependent will cease to be compile-time static. So you will be
> unable to have certain things fully precompiled.

LLVM, in spite of the name, is not a virtual machine like java.  It is
a compiler, or rather a compiler library, with a platform independent
IR.  The gcc C and C++ front-ends have been ported to LLVM, i.e. the
LLVM optimizers and IR are used instead of the gcc ones, and I'm currently
porting the Ada front-end to it.  The LLVM IR produced is not platform
independent, simply because the gcc trees produced by the front-ends are
not platform independent.

Ciao,

Duncan.