From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Intermediate Representation
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 16:53:08 +0100
Date: 2020-04-01T16:53:08+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ly4ku342zf.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 33f4a7cb-4baa-41fd-b0d5-27501b4fab5a@googlegroups.com
foo wong <crap@spellingbeewinnars.org> writes:
> I have been using GnuCOBOL extensively since 2013. One thing that I
> love about it is that it compiles to intermediate C.
>
> If you write a program, you can compile it to this, run ctags on the
> runtime and the intermediate C and then hop around jumping from the C
> function calls generated into the runtime to see how they are actually
> implemented.
>
> I would like to do the same with Ada. Is there a way? Using readelf, I
> was able to get some clues and looking at the .ali files I had a few
> more clues but so far it does not seem to be the same thing.
Try compiling with -gnatG; I found this very helpful when developing
Cortex GNAT RTS. You have to keep your wits about you!
Look at [1], from section Tasking. This was with GCC 4.9.1 for a
restricted runtime: the details, particularly task creation, vary a bit
between compiler releases.
[1] https://forward-in-code.blogspot.com/2015/06/building-runtime-system-for-arm-eabi.html
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-01 11:40 Intermediate Representation foo wong
2020-04-01 11:54 ` foo wong
2020-04-01 12:16 ` Egil H H
2020-04-01 12:06 ` Optikos
2020-04-01 12:25 ` foo wong
2020-04-01 15:53 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2020-04-01 16:27 ` Per Sandberg
2020-04-01 17:17 ` Anh Vo
2020-04-01 20:40 ` foo wong
2020-04-01 22:28 ` Bob Duff
2020-04-02 0:19 ` foo wong
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