From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26417 invoked by alias); 21 Dec 2007 11:51:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 26408 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Dec 2007 11:51:21 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from dmz.mips-uk.com (HELO dmz.mips-uk.com) (194.74.144.194) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:51:17 +0000 Received: from internal-mx1 ([192.168.192.240] helo=ukservices1.mips.com) by dmz.mips-uk.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1J5gPE-0002HQ-00; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:51:08 +0000 Received: from perivale.mips.com ([192.168.192.200]) by ukservices1.mips.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1J5gPA-0001fn-00; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:51:04 +0000 Received: from macro (helo=localhost) by perivale.mips.com with local-esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J5gPA-0004tC-SI; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:51:04 +0000 Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:02:00 -0000 From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Joel Brobecker cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, David Ung , "Maciej W. Rozycki" Subject: Re: mips-tdep.c: Sign-extend pointers for n32 In-Reply-To: <20071221113352.GN6154@adacore.com> Message-ID: References: <20071216184625.GA22905@caradoc.them.org> <20071219152826.GA30488@caradoc.them.org> <20071219161552.GA1280@caradoc.them.org> <20071220165805.GB17663@caradoc.them.org> <20071221042337.GI6154@adacore.com> <20071221113352.GN6154@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-MIPS-Technologies-UK-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MIPS-Technologies-UK-MailScanner-From: macro@mips.com Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-12/txt/msg00367.txt.bz2 On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Joel Brobecker wrote: > Ada is in many ways to Pascal, and I consider them to be close to C. Well, certainly both are procedural and thus closer to C than e.g. M4. ;) > My first time in Ada, I wrote a simple C program and then ran the GNAT > compiler and followed its instructions until I got a valid Ada program > ;-). Good hint ;) -- I did some Ada hackery when trying to make the compiler work better for MIPS/Linux (any interest in that, BTW?) and it was somewhat tricky. > For a language that's really different to C, how about Fortran? > There's scheme as well, but I don't know how well we support it. I know neither of them well enough to make any comments. Unfortunately I do not seem to see any interest in supporting languages like Lisp or Prolog with GCC yet. ;) Maciej