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From: bourguet@my-deja.com
Subject: Re: Announcing GNAT version 3.12p for Linux and Sparc Solaris
Date: 1999/10/20
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In article <7uia7h$kn4$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> wrote:
> A new public release of GNAT version 3.12p, is now
> available at
>
>    ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat
>
> for GNU/Linux and Sparc Solaris. Other versions to follow very
> shortly, as well as RPM's for Linux (from the GNAT/Linux
> group).
>
> This release coincides with the opening day of Sig Ada :-)

This is a good thing. The list of improvement is impressive, but
I've two questions:

>   GNORT now permits the use of allocators and it is also
> possible to
>   explicitly raise Program_Error. These calls are supported by
> user
>   defined subprograms. See GNORT documentation for full details.

I could not found GNORT documentation in the documentation,
in the source nor in the linux binary tar file. Did I miss something?

>   In -gnatc mode, an existing up to date ali file is no longer
> destroyed.
>   In particular this means that the -gnatc -gnatt compilations
> used by
>   ASIS do not destroy existing ali files.

On cs.nyu.edu, the asis subdirectory contains only 3.11p version.
The same is true for gnatelim. Is the 3.11p implementation of
ASIS still valid?

Yours,

-- Jean-Marc Bourguet


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