From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,352ded3d63df97d9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: GNAT 3.11 worth installing Date: 1999/03/04 Message-ID: <7bmbh6$inf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 451181289 References: <36DDC9B2.7FC0B5C6@hiwaay.net> <36DE4874.9FA45B71@frqnet.de> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x8.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Mar 04 16:14:41 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 1999-03-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <36DE4874.9FA45B71@frqnet.de>, Andreas Winckler 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. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own