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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada on Apple's new procesors
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 21:03:32 +0100
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On 24/06/2020 20:26, Simon Wright wrote:
>> Yes, option 0 would support only Apple's Intel-based products (and
>> perhaps still support PowerPC-based defunct products), not the new
>> ARM-based Mac, which is the entire point of OP.  Without GNAT-LLVM, no
>> Ada compiler from any vendor on the new ARM-based Mac nor on
>> iOS/iPadOS devices.  So that is why 2 prior authors omitted option 0:
>> because it is effectively a degenerate inferior
>> not-quite-a-full-option.
> 
> Thanks for rubbing my nose in this, you really didn't need to do that
> since Luke has had a good go already (sorry, Luke, I'd forgotten that

Did I?

> other Ada users might want to develop for iOS - something they can't do
> at the moment ofc, and who knows whether there'll be an apple-arm-darwin
> GCC in the future)

Are you doing that?