Re: ee9 V1.9: Ada 2005 emulator of the KDF9

[Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 11/01/2012 15:45, in article slrnjgrbkr.2sa.localhost@example.org,
"usenet@postinghost.com" <usenet@postinghost.com> wrote:

> Hi Bill,
> 
> Very interesting announcement, well done!

Thanks, whoever you are.

> As far as I could see on the libre site, there is no GNAT available at all
> for SPARC. The only thing downloadable appears to be SPARK. I have a copy of
> 3.15p for SPARC installed somewhere but I suspect your code wouldn't build
> under it?

You are right: I had not checked what was available under the sparc-solaris
option.  And ee9 certainly won't compile under 3.15p, as it uses several Ada
2005 features in ways that could not easily be avoided.

> I'd be glad to help with SPARC builds but I don't have anything newer than
> 3.15p and until I can learn to build gcc-Ada myself I'm a bit stuck since I
> prefer not to use other peoples packages although if AdaCore would host a
> package and stand behind it I would give it a shot.

It's disappointing that no Solaris GNAT GPL is provided; ee9 is /very/
loosely based on ideas from an emulator I wrote in Ada 95 on a Sun in 1996.

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Bill Findlay
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