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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a1fbd17804c1dd58 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-30 10:28:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!btnet-peer1!btnet-peer0!btnet!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C5839E3.A1455F46@linuxchip.demon.co.uk> From: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: gnat for alpha linux References: <3C55D517.5050908@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:22:27 +0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.2.245.11 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 1012414981 80.2.245.11 (Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:23:01 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:23:01 GMT Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19390 Date: 2002-01-30T18:22:27+00:00 List-Id: I built the Alpha Linux/x86 GNAT cross compiler over two years ago. The sources (3.11p(?)) compiled with a few relatively simple modifications. The compiled code would operate OK in very simple cases. More complex code would crash somewhere in the runtime (IIRC). Unfortunately, I never investigated the crashes, because I left the company which was wanting the work. My current project would benefit by using a 64-bit architecture, since the 32-bit GNAT versions have issues with large records (>256MB), and my Ada code is also hitting the memory limits on 32-bit. If someone does do a port, I'm interested to hear about it. I would like to offer my help in the project, but I don't have any Alpha hardware at the moment (because it doesn't support Ada...), and I am a bit hazy on what the hacks were to get it to compile. -- Dr Adrian Wrigley Cambridge, England.