> From: Laurent GUERBY > Wether C++, Java or Ada, a new language requirement looks the same to > me: having a good enough base compiler and runtime installed > for the language, I do not see anything special to Java or > Ada over C++ here. The base compiler I use for building GCC > has only c,ada (4.0) because that's what is needed, if c++ is > needed I'll add the recommanded c++ compiler, if java and > some JVM is needed, I'll add java and the recommanded JVM, no > big difference.
As others have pointed out, there's potentially a small difference in the case of Java, in that I believe the .class -> .o part of the compiler would still be buildable without an existing JVM, and perhaps even somewhat tested without one. And that's the part that's likely to break if other parts of the compiler are changed. I don't think Ada has an analog to that. Hans
