Re: Ada in Debian: gnat-4.1 is now in testing

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Adrian Knoth <adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> writes:
> Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
>
>> Someone asked me privately about 64-bit support in GtkAda, and I
>> thought I'd clarify the situation once more here, as this information
>> may be of general interest.
>
> Talking about gnat-4.x: Have you seen my bugreport (only Cc)
> concerning gnat-3.x (perhaps even -4.x)? The example in
> libao (<http://adi.thur.de/index.php?show=asound>) works
> fine with gnat-3.15p, compiles with gnat-3.x but has a
> NULL-pointer where it should have a pointer to heap memory (or
> stack, don't know the details anymore).

No, unfortunately.  Where did you report it?  If in the Debian bug
tracking system, against which package?

>> versions.  Since I don't have 64-bit hardware, I cannot do this by
>
> I can provide you with a login to a 64-bit machine. Let me know
> what you need (i.e. pbuilder, your own chroot or whatever you
> like).

Thanks a lot for the offer; I appreciate it very much, but
unfortunately I can't take it.  You see, I do almost all of my Debian
work while commuting on the train, with no network access.  I have an
old Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 at home with 64-bit processors, but I don't
have time to actually use it.  What I really need is a 64-bit laptop.

OTOH, if you can try out my future patches on your machine, that would
be really very helpful.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.