From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f16a645029bb2cdd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news2.volia.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.inode.at!news.hispeed.ch!linux2.krischik.com!news From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The GNU Ada compiler Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:33:12 +0100 Organization: Cablecom Newsserver Message-ID: <1691618.MhViCBI7GN@linux1.krischik.com> References: <8352037.GvZVdQSXN4@linux1.krischik.com> <10516182.EDYboSzEoF@linux1.krischik.com> <1500332.U7CjsdsL0l@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 80-218-112-22.dclient.hispeed.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.hispeed.ch 1135020634 26680 80.218.112.22 (19 Dec 2005 19:30:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:30:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.10 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6933 Date: 2005-12-19T19:33:12+01:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article <1500332.U7CjsdsL0l@linux1.krischik.com>, Martin Krischik > writes: > >> I never thought there would be a demand for OpenVMS - thinking that any >> OpenVMS shop using Ada would have GNAT/Pro or DecAda or both. >> >> However, I also know that there is a special OpenVMS patch to GNAT/Pro >> which is more then 700kB in size. Do I have to say more? > > Yes you do have to say more to communicate to those of us who do not > have any experience with GNAT. Well, you don't actually need experience with GNAT. You need experience with diff and patch ;-). There are 700kb worth of special changes to the standart GCC in order to make GNAT work pleasantly on OpenVMS. So just compiling a standart GCC on OpenVMS might not be enough to have an well working Ada on OpenVMS. Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com