Re: GNAT and GCC 3.02

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <20020102140849.2bb221a5.nospam@attbi.com>, Mr. Caffiene says...
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>I've been considering upgrading to GCC 3.02, however I'm not sure if GNAT will work or even compile with this GCC release.
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>Anyone point me to some documents which will give me the lowdown on this?

It depends on what you mean by "work with". The latest public release of Gnat
use gcc 2.8.1. The only way to even attempt to use 3.02 instead would be to try
to build them together from sources, which wouldn't likely work at all. However,
there's nothing preventing you from having *both* compilers on your system,
which is what most folks have been doing for a while now.

Gnat has been checked into the GCC baseline, but no stable version of gcc has
been released since then. You may or may not be able to grab a gcc source
snapshot from their CVS server and build yourself a post 3.0.3 gcc with Gnat
included. If you want to go that route, I'd monitor the mailing list
(http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/) to help out with any problems you might encounter.


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