From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,13b7917466f2d19 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-08 04:25:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!62.154.176.138!not-for-mail From: Steffen Huber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT and GCC 3.0 Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 13:24:30 +0200 Organization: private Message-ID: <3BC18CEE.8F86294A@gmx.de> References: <9a575af3.0110020747.2304ce86@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0110041038.5c321817@posting.google.com> <36c6f8dd.0110051506.3fdabae0@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0110060951.559b8bcf@posting.google.com> Reply-To: steffen.huber@gmx.de NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.154.176.138 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1002540321 21052974 62.154.176.138 (16 [82308]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [de] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: de Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13919 Date: 2001-10-08T13:24:30+02:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: [snip] > Porting GNAT to other than vanilla Unix systems on > traditional byte addressable machines is definitely > not straightforward. As far as we know the only > such port ever achieved outside ACT was Doug Rupp's > port to DOS (and Doug now works for ACT -- where he is > the primary maintainer of the port of GNAT for VMS - > which is certainly the trickiest of all the ports :-) There once was a port of GNAT 3.03 to RISC OS (which is very much non-Unix - you could think of it as a DOS-like operating system with a shiny GUI on top of it, but running on ARM processors), done by Peter Burwood. And I still live in hope that one day the RISC OS gcc portmaster will attempt a new GNAT port... [snip] Steffen -- steffen.huber@gmx.de steffen@huber-net.de GCC for RISC OS - http://www.arcsite.de/hp/gcc/ Private homepage - http://www.huber-net.de/