Re: gnat310p on NT

["David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

bob wrote in message <01bdc744$cef04bc0$0e2915c0@w95>...
>Anyone using NT gnat? Have a 4400 line package (body) running on Linux and
>wanted to run it on NT. AdaGide croaked big time. Said code was too big and
>to try with "colorizing off". Did this and couldn't save the .ini. It
>locked up and had to use NT Task-Master to kill the Gide process. Cut the
>size of the package down by 1500 lines (just cut them out) to see what
>would happen. Could then scroll and save until I did a compile. Gide locked
>up. Had to kill it. After doing this 4 times, started getting messages
>saying NT thought the source was on a CD drive and door was open. Had to
>reboot. The NT4.0 system has 64Meg ram and 11.5GB disk with Dual PPro/180.
>Task Master shows not running out of memory (44MB reported free when Gide
>loaded). Doesn't appear to be any way to configure AdaGide to allow more
>memory/larger programs. Compiling with listing to a file finally allowed
>ONE (1) complete pass without crashing. Closing the source window also
>killed the Gide. Any clues???
>
This is not a gnat problem at all (except to the extent that AdaGIDE is
distributed with gnat), but only with AdaGIDE.  I have experienced the same
problem, but only with code written by others, for I fervently believe that
any code more than a few hundred lines in a file needs to be restructured.

For example, the bodies of subprograms and/or tasks can (should IMHO) be
made separates.

Incidentally, If you haven't done so already, you should get version 6.20 of
AdaGIDE at:
ftp://ftp.usafa.af.mil/pub/dfcs/carlisle/adagide/agide620.zip

If you really want to find out how to increase the capacity of AdaGIDE to
handle larger source files, download the code from:
ftp://ftp.usafa.af.mil/pub/dfcs/carlisle/adagide/agsrc620.zip
and have a go at it.  I'm sure Martin will appreciate the contribution.