Re: Ada in Debian: gnat-4.1 is now in testing

["Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Thanks Poul-Erik. Messages like these are a good incentive for me to
keep on working.

Someone asked me privately about 64-bit support in GtkAda, and I
thought I'd clarify the situation once more here, as this information
may be of general interest.

The transition to gnat-4.1 is in progress but still in early stages.
Like I said, my first patches are not even public yet.  I will try to
provide 64-bit binary packages only after I'm done with the compiler,
because a 64-bit compiler is a prerequiste for any 64-bit binary
packages (d'oh).  I'm not sure yet how much work is needed for good
biarch support in gnat, but basically I want to make sure that both
-m32 and -m64 work, and that libgnat has both 32-bit and 64-bit
versions.  Since I don't have 64-bit hardware, I cannot do this by
myself, so I will rely on input from people who are sufficiently
interested in biarch to invest some of their time into it.  Or, maybe
someone could sponsor me and buy me a 64-bit laptop?  My workhorse is
starting to show its age (it's an IBM ThinkPad T22 from 2001
with an Intel Pentium III @900 MHz - a bit slow to build GCC).

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.