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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5867ff5404195f0e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-05 06:42:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!feedme.news.mediaways.net!abq.news.ans.net!news.chips.ibm.com!newsfeed.btv.ibm.com!news.btv.ibm.com!not-for-mail From: pontius@btv.MBI.com.invalid (Dale Pontius) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: FYI: GNAT and GCC Date: 5 Oct 2001 13:42:39 GMT Organization: IBM Global Services North -- Burlington, Vermont, USA Message-ID: <9pkdcf$j5g$1@news.btv.ibm.com> References: <3BBA9724.2020009@earthlink.net> <5ee5b646.0110030812.d2ad098@posting.google.com> <3BBBCF3B.9050403@earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: kimon.btv.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.btv.ibm.com 1002289359 19632 9.61.131.227 (5 Oct 2001 13:42:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@btv.ibm.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Oct 2001 13:42:39 GMT X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.0 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13782 Date: 2001-10-05T13:42:39+00:00 List-Id: In article <3BBBCF3B.9050403@earthlink.net>, "Ian S. Nelson" writes: > Robert Dewar wrote: >> "Ian S. Nelson" wrote in message news:<3BBA9724.2020009@earthlink.net>... >> >>>Florian Weimer wrote: >>>So GNAT or rather Ada will be in GCC 3.1? Ada will be part of *the* >>>compiler?!? >>> >>>This is some of the best news I've heard in quite a while. >>> >> >> >> People unfamiliar with gcc may be reading far too much into >> this announcement. For example, this definitely does not >> mean that all installations of gcc will include Ada, no >> more than they include g77 (or chill for that matter) >> right now. It is just one of the front ends that is >> available, it is not automatically included. >> >> Robert Dewar > > > It doesn't mean it will be there but it means it will be there when I > build GCC.. And most likely Mandrake, Redhat, *BSD, etc.. will start > adding support. > Just for a minor chunk of other good news, at least rpms for gnat, gtk-ada, and a few other things are on the RedHat 7.1 PowerTools CD. I don't have the system with it installed handy, so I can't comment on the versions. Plus I know it's on PowerTools and not on either of the base install CDs, but at least it's in the package. Dale Pontius (NOT speaking for IBM)