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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,bcdd81f11a99e024 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news2.volia.net!news.banetele.no!dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:11:02 +0300 Subject: Re: C to JVM, time to revive JGNAT? From: "Martin Krischik" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1l2508z5l58aq.u50pxrp8ink4.dlg@40tude.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.00 (Win32) Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.154.202.167 X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=IDc61I3\ndA1F[;SJ[;K0EYSB=nbEKnkKie8LN_Q]1UDS5daR30PdPEV:_8RJBabHM;O^i0GOe`^Cofe`J\FNoJ@GmAAM`mE=JOFQniZF161`A X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6145 Date: 2006-08-10T13:11:02+03:00 List-Id: Am 09.08.2006, 21:13 Uhr, schrieb Dmitry A. Kazakov : > On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:01:27 +0300, Martin Krischik wrote: > >> I think JGNAT, MGNAT and Interfaces.CPP are interesting technologies but >> somehow undermaintained. >> >> While MGNAT seem to come along nicely both JGNAT and Interfaces.CPP are >> stalled on a misseing code analyzer/generator for the needed thin >> bindings. It is just to much work to create them by hand. >> >> And a last point: the gcj (GNU Compiler for Java) is coming along nicely >> as well Interfaces.Java (interface to gcj) might be an alternative to >> JGNAT. > > Well, that wouldn't give us JVM target, or? gcj is dual target - binary and jvm. > Having a naked Ada compiler > into anything isn't much useful. Ada's run-time library is the thing that > makes it useful. Let's be honest here: the Java's runtime lib is a lot more powerfull then Ada's. Martin -- Martin Krischik krischik@users.sourceforge.net