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Simon Clubley wrote:

> In article <3daa2c68_1@news.tm.net.my>, Adrian Hoe <mailbox@*nospam*adrianhoe.com> writes:
> 
>>We tried to port gnat to 68K Dragonball (Palm) two years ago. It was 
>>very tedious and lack of documentation and the port was dropped.
>>
>>
> 
> I have wondered what kind of effort this involves, so I have a few questions:
> 
> What exactly is involved in porting the GNAT runtime to a new target ?
> 
> Is there any documentation at all about the overall process involved ?
> 
> What problems did you encounter attempting this port ?
> 
> Thanks for any information,
> 
> Simon.
> 
> 


It's actually a cross-compiler port to Dragon ball. We hit on many 
walls trying to build the cross-compiler. :(
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