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From: Peter Amey <peter.amey@praxis-cs.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Porting ADA source
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:13:52 +0100
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Giacomo Polizzi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have to port an ADA program from an Unix DEC Alpha machine with a DEC ADA
> compiler to a Linux pc machine with gnat (gcc) compiler.
> 
[snip]

Like others have said, the problem is best avoided by design for 
portability.  However, that doesn't help if it wasn't!

I haven't seen a mention of the rather excellent GnatPrep which might 
just help:

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gnat_ugn_unw/Preprocessing-Using-gnatprep.html

Peter