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From: dewar@gnat.com
Subject: Re: Gnat Free ?
Date: 1998/10/19
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In article <87vhlhbikr.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com>,
  Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> wrote:
> Jonathan Guthrie <jguthrie@weck.brokersys.com> writes:
> > Then, I needed to run software that could only be built with GCC 2.8.1, so
> > I installed it.  I spent six weeks (or so) trying to get GNAT to build
> > with GCC 2.8.1.
>
> GNAT built and ran without incident (for me anyway), without needing any
> patches, with egcs-1.0.3c.
>
> > Now, I MUST run GCC 2.8.1.  That is not negotiable, but the only thing I
> > need GNAT for is learning Ada.
>
> gcc-2.8.1 has quite a few more bugs than egcs-1.x.  Is there any reason
> your software won't build with either egcs-1.0.3c or egcs-1.1b?
>
> A patch is required to build gnat-3.10p with egcs-1.1b.  I can make it
> available to anyone who wants it...


This is very much appreciated. Ronald, if you like we would be happy to
arrange for this patch to be available on the standard GNAT mirror sites.
What will of course be even more interesting is a similar patch for GNAT
3.11. I think this will be fairly easy to adapt from your current patch.

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies

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