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From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
To: Gene Montgomery <g.montgomery@gte.net>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <or8zsp7k5x.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39C6366C.17C3E994@gte.net>

On Sep 18, 2000, Gene Montgomery <g.montgomery@gte.net> wrote:

> have wondered why the gnu crew would not have decided to add Ada to
> the already substantial capabilities of GCC

AFAIK, it's because part of GNAT is written in Ada, so you'd need an
Ada compiler to bootstrap it, and few people have one handy.

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-09-18  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 156+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-09-18  8:23 Gene Montgomery
2000-09-18  9:13 ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]
2000-09-18 13:07 ` reedkotler
2000-09-18  9:32 Richard Kenner
2000-09-18  9:45 William Gacquer
2000-09-18  9:52 ` Alexandre Oliva
2000-09-18  9:49 Richard Kenner
2000-09-18 13:25 ` Geoff Keating
2000-09-18 13:12 Richard Kenner
2000-09-18 15:38 ` Stan Shebs
2000-09-18 23:02   ` jfm2
2000-09-25 17:28 Robert Dewar
2000-09-26 12:56 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-10-01  8:35 Robert Dewar
2000-10-10 20:04 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-10-11 12:37   ` Laurent Guerby
2000-10-12  0:15     ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-10-12 15:40       ` Richard Stallman
2000-10-13  8:46         ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-10-14 11:27     ` Hartmut Schirmer
2000-10-14 12:21       ` Laurent Guerby
2000-10-11 17:04 Richard Kenner
2000-10-12  0:15 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-10-12 13:47   ` Laurent Guerby
2000-10-12 19:54 ` Corey Minyard
2000-10-12  4:16 Robert Dewar
2000-10-12  4:21 Richard Kenner
2000-10-13 15:04 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-10-12  4:25 Richard Kenner
2000-10-13 14:50 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-10-12 19:59 Robert Dewar
2000-10-12 20:09 Richard Kenner
2000-10-12 23:52 Mike Stump
2000-10-13  6:03 ` David O'Brien
2000-10-13  9:17 Robert Dewar
2000-10-13 15:12 Richard Kenner
2000-10-14  3:17 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-11-01 15:54   ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-10-14 11:35 Robert Dewar
2000-10-14 14:03 ` Corey Minyard
2000-10-14 11:36 Robert Dewar
2000-10-14 11:40 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 17:39 Richard Kenner
2000-11-01 17:51 ` Richard Henderson
2000-11-01 18:09 ` David Starner
2000-11-01 18:21   ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-02 15:03     ` Richard Stallman
2000-11-03  8:41       ` Florian Weimer
2000-11-04  8:53         ` Richard Stallman
2000-11-01 17:58 Richard Kenner
2000-11-01 18:07 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-01 18:09 Richard Kenner
2000-11-01 18:22 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-01 18:11 Richard Kenner
2000-11-01 18:23 Richard Kenner
2000-11-01 18:47 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-01 18:26 Richard Kenner
2000-11-01 18:49 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-01 18:51 Richard Kenner
2000-11-01 18:53 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 19:16 ` Daniel Berlin
2000-11-01 19:20 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-02  1:07   ` Geoff Keating
2000-11-01 19:38 ` Stan Shebs
2000-11-01 20:03   ` Daniel Berlin
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     [not found]   ` <5tzojjysyg.fsf@highland.sibyte.com>
     [not found]     ` <mailpost.973134665.11835@postal.sibyte.com>
2000-11-01 19:46       ` Chris G. Demetriou
2000-11-02  0:48 ` Richard Henderson
2000-11-01 18:58 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 19:06 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-03 11:50   ` Toon Moene
2000-11-02 14:09 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-11-03 13:40   ` Richard Stallman
2000-11-01 19:08 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 19:18 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 19:20 Robert Dewar
2000-11-02  0:20 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2000-11-01 19:23 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 19:31 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 19:40 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-01 19:53 ` Stan Shebs
2000-11-01 21:30 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-01 19:42 Mike Stump
2000-11-01 19:43 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 20:38 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-01 19:47 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 20:13 ` Stan Shebs
2000-11-01 19:54 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 21:44 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-01 19:58 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 21:17 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-02  1:17 ` Geoff Keating
2000-11-01 20:00 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 20:01 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 20:13 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-01 20:02 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 20:05 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 20:19 ` Daniel Berlin
2000-11-01 20:10 Mike Stump
2000-11-01 20:17 Mike Stump
2000-11-01 20:26 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 20:27 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 20:28 Robert Dewar
2000-11-02  1:09 ` Richard Henderson
2000-11-01 20:32 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 20:59 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-01 20:34 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 20:35 Mike Stump
2000-11-01 21:03 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-01 20:39 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 21:08 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-01 20:48 Mike Stump
2000-11-01 21:01 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 21:10 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 21:12 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 21:28 Mike Stump
2000-11-01 21:29 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 21:36 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 21:38 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 22:16 Robert Dewar
2000-11-01 22:24 Mike Stump
2000-11-02  4:35 Robert Dewar
2000-11-02  4:36 Robert Dewar
2000-11-02  4:40 Robert Dewar
2000-11-02 10:46 ` Richard Henderson
2000-11-02  4:41 Robert Dewar
2000-11-02  4:52 Richard Kenner
2000-11-02  7:28 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-02  4:56 Richard Kenner
2000-11-02  5:13 Robert Dewar
2000-11-02  7:25 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-02  5:15 Richard Kenner
2000-11-02  7:58 ` John P. Pietrzak
2000-11-02  7:31 Richard Kenner
2000-11-02  7:37 Robert Dewar
2000-11-02  7:42 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-02  7:40 Robert Dewar
2000-11-02  8:28 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-02  7:47 Robert Dewar
2000-11-02  8:08 Richard Kenner
2000-11-02  8:19 Robert Dewar
2000-11-02 13:02 Richard Kenner
2000-11-02 13:18 ` John P. Pietrzak
2000-11-02 13:22 Richard Kenner
2000-11-02 18:21 Robert Dewar
2000-11-02 18:32 Robert Dewar
2000-11-03 20:46 Robert Dewar
2000-11-05  7:49 ` Richard Stallman
2000-11-04  9:04 Robert Dewar
2000-11-04 12:05 ` Arnaud Charlet
2000-11-05  8:24 Robert Dewar
2000-11-05  8:32 ` Arnaud Charlet
2000-11-05  8:53 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-11-05  9:24   ` Laurent Guerby
2000-11-12  1:01 ` Richard Stallman
2000-11-12  4:59   ` Alexandre Oliva
2000-11-13 23:21     ` Richard Stallman

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