[PATCH] D35667: [DragonEgg] Initial migration to GCC v8.x and LLVM v6.x

[Dan'l Miller via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

optikos added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D35667#835044, @krytarowski wrote:

> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D35667#835033, @krytarowski wrote:
>
> > What's your particular need for this project? If just for fan, this might not be worth to maintain.
>


Independent of Xiang Leslie ZHAI's interest in learning & fun, the Ada community actually does have a “particular need for this project”, because GCC has been discontinued by Apple as a valid toolchain for developing iOS apps (or more specifically, on-iDevice debugging, not on the simulator), there is currently no hope of utilizing Ada in iOS development without DragonEgg.

> There is ongoing effort to upstream Fortran support to LLVM. If I'm not wrong only Ada is still missing.
>  It might be better to get native Ada frontend and DragonEgg can be abandoned.

Does anyone in this community know of an extant (or even in-formation/forthcoming/potential) effort to “get native Ada frontend” with an LLVM backend (other than DragonEgg)?


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https://reviews.llvm.org/D35667