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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ba34cc9c --- /dev/null +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2011, 2012 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 getting GNAT fully working in Debian GNU/Hurd. 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). |