Aonix bugs

Aonix bugs

[S�bastien Auclair]

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I'd like to know if their's anyone who could explain me why my
"ObjectAda for Windows V7.0.232 from Aonix" doesn't seems to function
properly.   

--I just can't access any "Edith - Delete" functions.
--My "Copy & past" fitures produce strange character apearances.
--ETC

If anyone does have the same problems with their compiler please send me
some Q about what could be causing those bugs.

Is there any other Ada 95 compiler available to work with.

Thanks in advance...

S�bastien Auclair
jg791569@er.uqam.ca

Re: Aonix bugs

[Stephen Leake]

S=E9bastien Auclair wrote:
> =

> ( French if possible )------- ( French if possible )--------- ( French
> if possible )
> =

> I'd like to know if their's anyone who could explain me why my
> "ObjectAda for Windows V7.0.232 from Aonix" doesn't seems to function
> properly.

I have Aonix at home, and I'm at work now, so I don't know exactly which
version I have. However, there is a LARGE patch file on the Aonix web
site, that fixed lots of bugs when I downloaded and installed it. You
can download it from:

http://www.aonix.com/Support/ada_index.html

> =

> Is there any other Ada 95 compiler available to work with.
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gnat works well under Windows 95, although I haven't used it for much
actual Win32 coding yet. gnat didn't link the first time I tried, and
Aoniz did, so I gave up on gnat. However, gnat has MUCH better error
messages for first-time-thru code, so I run all my code thru gnat till
it compiles, then link with Aonix.

Assuming Aonix is listening, I'll post my pet peeve with error messages:

procedure test is
	procedure foo (A : in Integer; B : in Float);
	=

begin
	foo (1.0, 2);
end;

This gives an error message "error in procedure call"; it does NOT say
that parameter 1 should be Integer, but is a real type. gnat gives:

test.adb:4:09: expected type "Standard.integer"
test.adb:4:09: found type universal real
gnatmake: "test.adb" compilation error

It is amazing how much nicer Ada feels when you get the gnat message
instead of the Aonix one (should gnat be capitalized here?).

> Thanks in advance...

You're welcome
> =

> S=E9bastien Auclair
> jg791569@er.uqam.ca

-- =

- Stephe

RE: Aonix bugs

[Dave Wood]

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S�bastien Auclair wrote:

>I'd like to know if their's anyone who could explain me why my
>"ObjectAda for Windows V7.0.232 from Aonix" doesn't seems to function
>properly.   
>
>--I just can't access any "Edith - Delete" functions.
>--My "Copy & past" fitures produce strange character apearances.
>--ETC
>
>If anyone does have the same problems with their compiler please send me
>some Q about what could be causing those bugs.

After 6 months of use, I've never experienced this problem.
I have scanned our problem report database and have found
no reports of such a problem.  I would recommend that you
contact your local customer support office or send a report
to adasupport@aonix.com.

My guess is that you have some broken DLL from another tool
that is causing side effects within ObjectAda.  We have had
a couple of cases where bad DLLs from Microsoft have caused
odd behavior within ObjectAda, though not specifically what
you describe.

>Is there any other Ada 95 compiler available to work with.

Absolutely not.

>Thanks in advance...

Je vous en prie.

-- Dave Wood
-- Product Manager, ObjectAda for Windows
-- Aonix - "Ada with an Attitude"

Re: Aonix bugs

[John Harbaugh]

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Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
> S�bastien Auclair wrote:
> >
> > ( French if possible )------- ( French if possible )--------- ( French
> > if possible )
> >
> > I'd like to know if their's anyone who could explain me why my
> > "ObjectAda for Windows V7.0.232 from Aonix" doesn't seems to function
> > properly.
> 
> I have Aonix at home, and I'm at work now, so I don't know exactly which
> version I have. However, there is a LARGE patch file on the Aonix web
> site, that fixed lots of bugs when I downloaded and installed it. You
> can download it from:
> 
> http://www.aonix.com/Support/ada_index.html
> 
> >
> > Is there any other Ada 95 compiler available to work with.
> >
> 
> gnat works well under Windows 95, although I haven't used it for much
> actual Win32 coding yet. gnat didn't link the first time I tried, and
> Aoniz did, so I gave up on gnat. However, gnat has MUCH better error
> messages for first-time-thru code, so I run all my code thru gnat till
> it compiles, then link with Aonix.
> 
> Assuming Aonix is listening, I'll post my pet peeve with error messages:
> 
> procedure test is
>         procedure foo (A : in Integer; B : in Float);
> 
> begin
>         foo (1.0, 2);
> end;
> 
> This gives an error message "error in procedure call"; it does NOT say
> that parameter 1 should be Integer, but is a real type. gnat gives:
> 
> test.adb:4:09: expected type "Standard.integer"
> test.adb:4:09: found type universal real
> gnatmake: "test.adb" compilation error
> 
> It is amazing how much nicer Ada feels when you get the gnat message
> instead of the Aonix one (should gnat be capitalized here?).
> 
> > Thanks in advance...
> 
> You're welcome
> >
> > S�bastien Auclair
> > jg791569@er.uqam.ca
> 
> --
> - Stephe

I have been struggling to install the U2A and U2B patch files.  It turns
out that all unzip routines are not created equal.  Specifically, do not
use PKUnzip!  I was directed by Aonix tech. support to use WinZip95. 
This finally installed the patch.  In many cases, the patch is an
improvement - delay until no longer raises an NYI exception, and you can
call Ada.Interrupts routines without raising exceptions.

However, in some cases, Aonix has traded one set of bugs for another. 
For example, running build on a unit requiring recompilation generates
an illegal operation warning, rather than an object file.  Also, while
you can create projects in any directory, attempting to link with them
invokes the MS linker which dies with a fatal link error LLNll04: cannot
open file "C:\Ada95\New".  The only projects wich now work are those
created in the ObjectAda directory.

ObjectAda is getting better and will be a really nice product, maybe by
V7.1.

Re: Aonix bugs

[Ben Brosgol]

John Harbaugh wrote:
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> Also, while
> you can create projects in any directory, attempting to link with them
> invokes the MS linker which dies with a fatal link error LLNll04: cannot
> open file "C:\Ada95\New".  The only projects wich now work are those
> created in the ObjectAda directory.

From this error diagnostic I suspect that you were trying to link out of
a directory whose name contains blank spaces, perhaps "New Foobar" or
something like that.  Unfortunately when the directory name gets parsed
the tool that does this truncates the directory name at the space
character.  I believe this is a documented bug.  Try renaming the
directory to one that is blankless and see what happens.

> ObjectAda is getting better and will be a really nice product, maybe by
> V7.1.

Thanks,

Ben Brosgol
Aonix
200 Wheeler Rd.
Burlington, MA 01803
brosgol@ma.aonix.com