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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: finding code in Eclipse
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:04:14 +0200
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On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 05:29:56 -0700 (PDT), Britt wrote:

> On Aug 12, 4:10�am, Pascal Obry <pas...@obry.net> wrote:

>> Why this old version?
>>
>> GNAT GPL 2011 come with a version for the JVM.
>>
> And the User's Guide is here:
> http://www.adacore.com/wp-content/files/auto_update/gnatvm-docs/jgnat_ug.html
> http://www.adacore.com/wp-content/files/auto_update/gnatvm-docs/jgnat_ug.pdf

The list of limitations (Section 11) is rather long. It is difficult to
estimate the consequences. Some examples:

- "Limited support for controlled types"
a bit vague, can mean anything.

- "Null arrays with multiple dimensions"
That could be non-starter for LA numerical libraries.

- "Representation attributes" + "Unchecked_Conversion between different non
scalar types"
This could mean that typical implementation of I/O protocol would not work

- "User-defined Storage_Pools"
This eliminates certain implementation of container libraries.

- "Wide_String and Wide_Wide_String"
I would not shed tears about that, but some could. Anyway what was the
problem with them?

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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