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=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e60fe41dcabc5f5d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Kees de Lezenne Coulande <100121.1153@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: Re: GNAT 3.03 for OS/2 Date: 1996/03/31 Message-ID: <960331180107_100121.1153_EHQ146-1@CompuServe.COM>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 145098636 sender: Ada programming language comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-03-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: John Howard wrote: >My list is at 39 users who've either contacted me or posted they use GNAT >for OS/2. Of course, there are more but I don't know who they are. I would like to register my interest in GNAT for OS/2. I am trying to port some large Ada83 programmes from VAX to PC. Last summer, I tried GNAT 2.06 for DOS. This gave many problems and never resulted in an executable programme. Whatever could be pinpointed as compiler problems was submitted to Dewar c.s. who took care of everything with their usual efficiency. I was also left with quite a few vague compiler aborts which I could not immediately track down. Then there was a lenghty gap while awaiting the release of the next GNAT version. During this time, I installed OS/2 on my 486 PC and increased memory from 8 to 20 Mb. In other words, I was trying to follow the recommendations of Robert Dewar for a stable PC platform (I know he recommends 32 Mb, but on account of the age of my system I decided to try 20 Mb first, which seems OK). When GNAT 3.01 for OS/2 became available in December, I could resume my efforts with increased enthusiasm. I found this version of GNAT to be a great improvement, but still not without problems. Although I still needed work-arounds here and there, I managed to get two programmes up and running on OS/2. Now I could finally prove what I had been suspecting for some time, namely that even my venerable PC is comparable in speed to the VAX I was using. A third programme is still plagued by compiler problems. These have been submitted to ACT and they assure me that all but one have been solved on 3.04. For the one that is left, a work-around is possible. I am therefore anxiously awaiting the release of 3.04 for OS/2, because if no new problems crop up, I should finally be able to compile and link all my VAX Ada code (of course the programme that does not run yet, happens to be the most important of the three). Regarding OS/2 itself, I approached it with a bit of trepidation initially. But it installed without any problems right off the CD-Rom, and I have gradually learned to like it. I am not a GUI-person, so the fact that one can have multiple command-line sessions of two different flavours is a big plus. I would hate to see GNAT for OS/2 dropped, because then I might run out of excuses to avoid Windows 95. So I hope that Robert Dewar will remain an OS/2 enthusiast for a long time. Kees de Lezenne Coulander --------------------------------------------------------------------- C.M. de Lezenne Coulander Amsterdam-Zuidoost The Netherlands Tel: +31(20)6909238 E-mail: 100121.1153@compuserve.com Formerly with Fokker Aircraft, now looking for a new challenge. =====================================================================