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Subject: Re: Ada on Apple's new procesors
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On Wednesday, July 1, 2020 at 6:46:48 AM UTC+2, Optikos wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at 5:40:13 PM UTC-5, Simon Wright wrote:
> > Optikos writes:
> >=20
> Gee, either
> a) we all concurrently pulled it out of thin air via overactive imaginati=
on as you imply,
> or
> b) the following extant events & facts transpired:

The answer is a).

> it is quite clear that the intended reading of README.md is referring to =
the Apple-Apple-Appleness of bitcode since bitcode was announced at Apple's=
 Worldwide Developer Conference in June 2015 as a key technology related to=
 App Store submission and downstream proprietary processing by Apple post-s=
ubmission:
>=20

It seems like you focus too much on details of a simple README. LLVM bitcod=
e is sometimes used to talk about the general LLVM IR.

The example use case mentioned by the README are bringing more tooling to t=
he Ada ecosystem, for instance with KLEE, or "connecting the GNAT front-end=
 to the LLVM code generator".

It took time and effort to publish GNAT-LLVM on GitHub, and AdaCore had abs=
olutely no obligation to do so. To be honest, I am personally a bit disappo=
inted to see such a long discussion on what is allegedly not possible to do=
 with GNAT-LLVM (and was absolutely not possible before anyway), rather tha=
n all the possibilities that GNAT-LLVM opens.