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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn index 31d1b164..dba6dc46 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ See also the list of [Hurd-related X.Org project ideas](http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Hurd_Porting). <!-- Olaf, wouldn't it make sense to put the following tasks next to each -other: language_bindings, gccgo, perl_python. --> +other: language_bindings, gnat, gccgo, perl_python. --> [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ other: language_bindings, gccgo, perl_python. --> [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/maxpath" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] +[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/gccgo" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/hardware_libs" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/cdparanoia" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ee6afa2f --- /dev/null +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="Porting GNAT (GCC)"]] + +An initial port of the GNU Ada Translator (GNAT) is available for the Hurd. + +The goal of this project is to continue improving and polishing that port and +getting it integrated in the upstream GCC repository. It +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. + +Possible mentors: [[Samuel Thibault (youpi)|samuelthibault]], [[Thomas Schwinge +(tschwinge)|tschwinge]]. + +Exercise: Fix one of the known issues of GNAT on the Hurd. + +--- + +[[Open Issue page|open_issues/gnat]]. [Entry in the GCC +wiki](http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode#gnat_hurd). diff --git a/open_issues/gnat.mdwn b/open_issues/gnat.mdwn index e3005ee4..05b79f62 100644 --- a/open_issues/gnat.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/gnat.mdwn @@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ There is a [[!FF_project 259]][[!tag bounty]] on this task. First, make the language functional, have its test suite pass without errors. +## Original [[community/GSoC]] Task Description + +[[!inline pages=community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat feeds=no]] + + ## Debian GCC There has a patch been added for GNU/kFreeBSD: @@ -83,6 +88,17 @@ svn://svn.debian.org/gcccvs/branches/sid@5638 GNAT to Hurd. +## Svante's patch + +A basic port has been done by Svante, but there's still lots of work remaining. +The port is not yet upstream: the maintainer raised some concerns that +[[I|tschwinge]] have not yet found the time to follow up on. While the test +results of the GCC/GNAT testsuite don't look bad (but there are a few +unresolved issues, and the testsuite appears to be a rather small one), I don't +know if the port has yet seen any real-world usage, such as using it for any +bigger Ada code bases, or any Ada testsuites. + + --- |