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Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:23:15 +0100
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On 07.03.11 16:35, Julian Leyh wrote:
> On 6 Mrz., 05:51, "Nasser M. Abbasi" <n...@12000.org> wrote:
>> Another question: I would like to use gcc to build an Ada program,
>> only because I know gcc is available everywhere, but if I use gnat GPL
>> how do I make sure the same program will build with gcc if
>> one of these 2 choices happened to be 'recent' than the other or
>> one has more packages than the other?
> 
> You'd have to test your program with all the compilers you want it to
> be compilable with, i.e. compile it with both, GNAT-GPL and GCC-GNAT.

Chances are that all Ada compilers will compile
standard Ada programs.  This shouldn't be too
limiting for non-graphical, non-networked programs.