Re: gnat hppa

["Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>]

Stefan Schaeckeler wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I _have_ to use Ada for a project. So I installed gnat on my computer: hpux 10.20,
> 
> hp735 (hppa 1.1). gnat seems to be able to compile there just hello_world - like
> 
> programs. larger programs don't compile (internal gnat error). the same programs
> 
I have encountered similar problems when compiling very large package
specs with long "with" chains. My suspicion is that it may have had
something to do with dynamic memory allocation. I had the system
administrator bump up the size of the page file and shot any other
running applications in the head and it seemed to get better.
Periodically, it would rear its ugly head again and logging out and
logging back in (again with no other running applications) and it would
go back to working. We never tracked down the exact problem except that
fooling with the amount of available virtual memory seemed to help it
out. The GNAT compiler could certainly use some exception trapping or,
at least, better error messages when this happens.

I hate Unix!

MDC
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