From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: State of the compiler market Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 12:07:36 +0100 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net; news.eternal-september.org Message-ID: References: <5881b0ca-3a11-442e-88ce-18d0a6142c24@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 11:05:41 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="a6ec720b1ba15092942e237f8506fd81"; logging-data="3418"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/d2UOJyvQd8eru7CjwcRtM6+AvwMYFsQ4=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.1 In-Reply-To: <5881b0ca-3a11-442e-88ce-18d0a6142c24@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:J/yXH8jAPnU3npfSxq0nZleBBgc= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:33403 Date: 2017-02-25T12:07:36+01:00 List-Id: On 02/25/2017 11:48 AM, Ingo M. wrote: > > As long as there is no complete official BNF available for the Ada 2012 > standard there will be no motivation to develop another compiler. A few years > ago I was seriously interested to develop an Ada/C transpiler but I realized > that it makes no sense with the current state of scattered documentation. So what is Annex P? http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/rm12_w_tc1/html/RM-P.html -- Jeff Carter "Oh Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." Monty Python and the Holy Grail 24