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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: Gnat on OpenVMS
Date: 1999/05/19
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In article <7hshfq$5tc$1@front1.grolier.fr>,
  "Thierry Lelegard" <lelegard@club-internet.fr> wrote:
> The GNAT port to OpenVMS was performed by ACT, with fundings
> from Digital after they decided to drop support for DEC Ada.
> GNAT does not produce code which is compatible with the
> OpenVMS debugger and a special port of GDB was also performed.

Just a note for the record here. It was a specific contract
requirement from DEC that GDB be used as the debugger, rather
than attempting to use the existing OpenVMS debugger.

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies



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