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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: GNAT 3.11 worth installing
Date: 1999/03/04
Date: 1999-03-04T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bmbh6$inf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36DE4874.9FA45B71@frqnet.de

In article <36DE4874.9FA45B71@frqnet.de>,
  Andreas Winckler <andreas.winckler@frqnet.de> wrote:
>
> Bruce or Tracy schrieb:
> >
> > Is GNAT 3.11 far enough better than 3.10 that it is worth installing?
>
> We used GNAT 3.11 on a Sun Sparc 5 to compile our software for X.25
> communication. The software uses very intensive the Ada tasking and
> exception handling features. With GNAT 3.11 the software crashes
> uncontrolled with a segmentation fault (core dump).

I hope you are looking into why this is happening, rather than just throwing
up your hands and blaming the compiler. Odds are there's something non-kosher
in the code. It could even be a timing problem that the new compiler just
causes to happen sooner!

T.E.D.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-03-04  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-03-03  0:00 GNAT 3.11 worth installing Bruce or Tracy
1999-03-03  0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-03-03  0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-04  0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-03-04  0:00   ` dewar
1999-03-04  0:00   ` dennison [this message]
1999-03-05  0:00     ` Andreas Winckler
1999-03-05  0:00       ` dennison
1999-03-06  0:00         ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-08  0:00         ` Andreas Winckler
1999-03-09  0:00           ` Peter Hermann
1999-03-05  0:00       ` robert_dewar
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