Re: GNAT & Windows NT

[lance@cais.cais.com (Lance Kibblewhite)]

Robert Dewar (dewar@cs.nyu.edu) wrote:
: Lance says

: "I see that the currently available version of GNAT is intended for Pentium
: systems only.

: Is anybody working on a version for 486's?  There can't be too many things
: within GNAT (or GCC) that would necessitate a Pentium rather then a 486.

: Actually, I'd prefer an Alpha AXP version, but I would guess that is
: really a problem with getting a GCC port first.


: Where did you get the idea that the current version of GNAT is only for
: the Pentium. This is nonsense, it is a 386/486/Pentium port (remember
: that these architectures are equivalent at the user level, modulo Pentium's
: well publicized incapability of guarateeing correct division results).

The idea that it was for a Pentium was a combination of two factors.
Firstly, it is labelled as an i586 version, and secondly, I had the
assumption that while members of the x86 family were upward compatible, 
they were necessarily downward comptible.  This assumption is obviously
incorrect (for 386, 486, and Pentium).

Now that I have been enlightened, I will proceed to install GNAT on my
486 NT system.

: There already is a version for Alpha AXP.

I've also been told this one is a month or so away.  I need this one for
work, but I can wait.

-- lance.