From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Hartmut Schirmer <hartmut.schirmer@arcormail.de>
To: guerby@acm.org, Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>
Cc: dewar@gnat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, guerby@acm.org
Subject: Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:27:00 -0000
Message-id: <00101321215000.00268@hallo>
References: <200010111937.VAA01637@ulmo>
X-SW-Source: 2000-10/msg00374.html

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Laurent Guerby wrote:
>IMHO, the problem we're trying to correct now is to get past the chicken-and-egg
>bootstrap problem, no available GCC compatible source means no contribution
>which means no incentive to provide public up to date sources...

Configure GNAT to produce java byte code and let it compile itself:
JGNAT.

This (and any binary produced by JGNAT) can be executed in a JVM or
directly on the host using GCC´s java front end:

         JGNAT               gcj
Sources -------> byte code -------> hosted GNAT (stage0)


Creating JGNAT once (or every few years) should be sufficient.

This scheme may work for other self implemented languages as well.

Hartmut