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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2012-12-11 11:50:51 +0100
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2012-12-11 11:50:51 +0100
commit0876703a0c29ce26a9ece6ab39c4d968dcd8cfd9 (patch)
treeec735c5e1459808c310cb86adb11e745dda969ce /community/gsoc
parentfcf515ed4b02d02dd09b541bdbd9e3e6070afb29 (diff)
parentf7114c3fe535af7d7acafeadfcdf4ebf5c72fdcc (diff)
Merge commit 'f7114c3fe535af7d7acafeadfcdf4ebf5c72fdcc'
Conflicts: open_issues/gnat.mdwn Restore GNAT tasks -- what we have today is just an incomplete initial port.
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@@ -11,13 +11,12 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
[[!meta title="Porting GNAT (GCC)"]]
-The GNU Ada Translator (GNAT) isn't available for the Hurd so far. There are
-also a number of other Debian packages depending on GNAT, and thus not
-buildable on the Hurd.
+An initial port of the GNU Ada Translator (GNAT) is available for the Hurd.
The goal of this project is getting GNAT fully working in Debian GNU/Hurd. It
-requires implementing some explicitly system-specific stuff in GNAT, and maybe
-fixing a few other problems. Good knowledge of Ada is a must; some Hurd
+requires implementing some explicitly system-specific stuff in GNAT (mostly in
+its runtime libraries), and for that also address a number of issues in Hurd
+and other libraries. Knowledge of Ada is a must; some Hurd
knowledge will have to be acquired while working on the project.
Designing and implementing [[language_bindings]] is a follow-up project.
@@ -25,7 +24,7 @@ Designing and implementing [[language_bindings]] is a follow-up project.
Possible mentors: [[Samuel Thibault (youpi)|samuelthibault]], [[Thomas Schwinge
(tschwinge)|tschwinge]].
-Exercise: Fix one of the problems preventing GNAT from working on the Hurd.
+Exercise: Fix one of the known issues of GNAT on the Hurd.
---