On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Richard Kenner wrote: > > > (anyone for an Ada tutorial during the summit? ;) > > > > (I wish I didn't see that smiley, because) > > For practical reasons, I'd agree that's a very good idea! > > > > I mean, those (hopefully "we") who attend could presumably hear > > about some subset that relates to GCC developers, instead of > > going the self-teaching path or taking some generic > > semi-introductory course. > > Which would be more interesting: a tutorial on the Ada language itself or > on the "demands" it places on GCC? The people who would do each of those > are different: Eric and I are two of the best for the latter, but neither > of us knows the Ada language well enough to give a language tutorial and > nearly all of those who do know it that well don't know how it interacts > with the GCC middle-end.
I am mostly interested in the Ada <-> middle-end interaction, specially where Adas requirements on the middle-end exceed that of C, and how this is currently handled. Even where there are useful extensions of the middle-end to make life of Gigi easier, especially in terms of possible optimizations. Thanks, Richard.
