Re: Mixing Cygnus & Gnat compilers on the same machine

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

Well, there may be bleeding-edge customers of ACT that would want early
releases, but they'd probably have bigger troubles than worrying about where
to house two versions of the compiler. (Not to mention that for something of
that magnitude, they'd easily be able to simply provide two development
platforms and be done with it.) The hobbyist and/or student might be in a
substantially different position & couldn't dedicate resources to two
compiler versions. But that kind of need probably won't demand the latest,
greatest release the instant it becomes available anyway, so it may be a
non-issue. (I think GNAT is stable enough that I personally could work
around whatever weaknesses it had & wouldn't be counting on the latest
release.)

The big advantage I would have with a common GNAT/gcc would be that the
Cygnus compiler would suddenly start translating Ada code for my Mips
embedded processor - making it possible to substitute Ada where now C
exists. But I'd expect it would take a good long time for that to migrate
into my PC here at work...

MDC
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"Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam> wrote in message
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> In article <3ADE4B03.68BA6651@bigfoot.de>, Gerhard
=?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4ring?= <gerhard.nospam@bigfoot.de> writes:
>
> In the long run the main gcc release will have GNAT included, right ?
> Unless one absolutely requires the "very latest" GNAT, there should be
> no need for multiple versions.