Re: ASIS : questions about the ASIS status against the Ada reference

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi> writes:

> On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:25:45 -0400 Stephen Leake wrote:
>> "Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:
> ...
>> > not practicable), is it theorically possible to imagine a compiler
>> > builded around ASIS ? 
>> 
>> I don't see how; ASIS presumes a compiler that generates the
>> information ASIS uses. Why build another compiler on top of that?
>
> There is Gela: http://www.ten15.org/wiki/Ada/Docs
>
> At the moment, it includes (partial) compiler/platform independent
> ASIS implementation and I think there is a plan to use ASIS as
> an intermediate representation for the compiler.

I stand corrected; ASIS presumes a parser plus name and overload
resolution, not a full compiler.

Interesting project.

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