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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Which gnat to use?
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Nasser Abbasi wrote:
> Hello;
>
> I need to compile some of my old Ada code. I have not programmed in Ada for
> sometime and I have not been up to the current status of GNAT.
>
> What is the current status of GNAT in terms of which version to use? I am
> confused since there seems to be (from reading latest posts)
>
> "FSF GNAT 4.3"
> "GNAT GPL 2007"  I think this was released in december 2007.
> and I know that latest GCC now contains gnat "in it".
>
> So my question is, if someone wants to use the latest and greatest free
> GNAT, which one of the above 3 to use?

It depends on your platform. See http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Installing

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Ludovic Brenta.