[haiku-development] Re: Ada Compiler?
- From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:59:23 -0400
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Patrick Kelly<kameo76890@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> C is basically C++, but yes.
That's a pretty bold statement :)
If Ada only can bind with C, it really won't be able to bind to C++.
The name mangling alone is quite different, besides other issues such
as constructors, destructors, virtual functions, operator overloading,
templates, etc.
It would probably be possible to build a C API wrapper around the C++
and then call that from Ada, but it would be a lot of work.
> I don't quite see why the API would have to stabilize for GCCv4 but
> not for GCCv2, does v2 magically make the API more stable.
Well yes in fact it does, though not by magic. Haiku has promised to
keep API compatibility with BeOS R5 for Haiku R1. Since there was no
GCC4 on BeOS there is no need to maintain backwards compatibility for
that compiler. In addition anything compiled with GCC2 cannot be used
with GCC4 and vise versa, because the name mangling was changed
between those compilers. That means that we have more room to change
the API in the future for GCC4 because no promise of backwards
compatibility has been made, and recompiling would be needed either
way to create a GCC4 Haiku application.
> I just believe with all that Ada's proven itself by,
> why not make it easier for Ada developers to code for Haiku.
In the future I think we all would like to have decent bindings for
various languages that can be used to code for Haiku. I'm partial to
scripting languages like Ruby and Python, though I'm open to
alternatives (obviously since I'm a Haiku developer) and will take a
look at Ada.
Anyhow my point is that once more of an infrastructure develops for
these other language bindings, maybe they could be included with
Haiku. But for now they don't exist or are incomplete, so I don't
think it makes sense to try to include unused tools with Haiku. It
isn't that hard to add things after install anyhow (well it could be
improved, and will be in the future.)
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Regards,
Ryan
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