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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades
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Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> But you can modify the run-time, ship it in binary only as part of your
> program, and prevent anyone from seeing your modifications.  Thus, you
> can make a closed-source version of the run-time.

One would have to be insane to try that. This is because you need help
testing it.

We are working on a modified runtime. It's painful and slow. It is
supposed to implement all the tasks in one process, and make use of
asynchronous IO to schedule them. Similar concept to GNU Pth, SGI state
threads.

Regards,
Wojtek Narczynski