Re: Janus/Ada 3.2.1 Released!

[Optikos <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 3:52:51 AM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2019-06-26 07:12, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 
> > P.S. I apologize to anyone that would rather not see the blatant ad. I try
> > not to do this more often than once per year, and the information ought to
> > be relevant to those who sometimes forget that there are other, actively
> > developed Ada compilers out there.
> 
> …
> 
> P.S. I hope Janus will target Linux some day. It could be a 
> Windows-hosted cross. I think many would buy that thing.

I concur, but the highest-RoI would be for Janus/Ada to have the LLVM backend in one fell swoop.  Then we as users would naturally get various object-file formats (e.g., ELF, XCOFF) and ISAs (e.g., Apple ARM) and debug formats (e.g., gdb's; lldb's)—both native and cross-compiled—inherited as a by-product, killing multiple birds with one stone.

Randy, would putting Janus/Ada's front end on
0) LLVM backend
be more difficult than any major target feature listed above alone (e.g.:
1) Janus/Ada as-is without LLVM plus ELF on x86;
2) Janus/Ada as-is without LLVM plus PE-on-ARM for the forthcoming ARM-based bendable/foldable Surface Phone thingy-whatever-it-will-be-called, deriving from Andromeda & Courier prototypes with Composable-Shell and Windows Core OS)?