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   Ada Stevenson (adanskana@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 20:24:07 JST Ada Stevenson

   Following my recent post about #GHDL, I was made aware that there is no bootstrap chain for #GNAT! For such a widely used and historically significant language like #Ada (totally not biased), it seems like a strange hole to be left. Plus, it would mean that GNAT could be included in full-source distributions like #Guix.

   Thankfully, there is an #NLNet project [1] just for this! I'm glad that there's some real resources being devoted to this. LMK if anyone has news!

   [1] https://nlnet.nl/project/Ada-bootstrap/

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 02:20:38 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     @adanskana Eh? that isn't really true? It is essentially the same situation with GCC, which needs GCC to bootstrap.

     (then again, #AdaCore is a nasty business which makes this immensely hard on purpose ... but it is doable)