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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2012-12-11 11:50:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2012-12-11 11:50:51 +0100 |
| commit | 0876703a0c29ce26a9ece6ab39c4d968dcd8cfd9 (patch) | |
| tree | ec735c5e1459808c310cb86adb11e745dda969ce /community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn | |
| parent | fcf515ed4b02d02dd09b541bdbd9e3e6070afb29 (diff) | |
| parent | f7114c3fe535af7d7acafeadfcdf4ebf5c72fdcc (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'f7114c3fe535af7d7acafeadfcdf4ebf5c72fdcc'
Conflicts:
open_issues/gnat.mdwn
Restore GNAT tasks -- what we have today is just an incomplete initial port.
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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn index fef26353..ba34cc9c 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn @@ -11,13 +11,12 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="Porting GNAT (GCC)"]] -The GNU Ada Translator (GNAT) isn't available for the Hurd so far. There are -also a number of other Debian packages depending on GNAT, and thus not -buildable on the Hurd. +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, and maybe -fixing a few other problems. Good knowledge of Ada is a must; some Hurd +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. @@ -25,7 +24,7 @@ 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 problems preventing GNAT from working on the Hurd. +Exercise: Fix one of the known issues of GNAT on the Hurd. --- |