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Date: 23 Sep 93 05:15:57 GMT
From: seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net  (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: Current state of Ada 9X compilers...?
Message-ID: <1993Sep23.051557.29778@seas.gwu.edu>
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In article <27oniq$khn@hpchase.rose.hp.com>,
Thomas Vachuska <tom@hpncmo.rose.hp.com> wrote:
>Can anybody offer an informed insight as to when platforms other than OS/2 and
>SPARC are going to be supported by GNAT?  Namely, what I have in mind is
>HP9000's series 800, 700 or 400.  From what I understand, cross-compilation
>from one of the supported platforms, i.e. OS/2 or SPARC would be necessary to
>achieve this.
>
Correct. NYU is _committed_ only to OS/2 and Sun SPARC. Given the reported
ease of moving it to Linux, as reported a while back here, "normal" ports
shouldn't be too hard using gcc cross-compilation.

NYU has advised not doing too many ports till the system is really stable,
but one can always try.

Mike Feldman
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