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From: Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>
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On 04/01/2013 02:15, in article 87zk0ppubz.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org, "Ludovic
Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:

> Randy Brukardt writes on comp.lang.ada:
>> It sounds like Fedora changes too often for my taste. (Do they have an
>> equivalent of the LTS of Ubuntu?).
> 
> Yes, Red Hat Enterprise Linux; 7 years of paid support for each major
> release, but no GNAT included in it.
> 
>> And it sounds like Debian stable is just too old relative to GNAT (I
>> do use some Ada 2005 features in my code, no interfaces though.) None
>> of which looks too promising.
> 
> GCC 4.4 does support many Ada 2005 features; it has the Containers for
> example.
> 
> In case you really need GCC 4.6, you'll be happy to learn that Debian 7
> "Wheezy" has been frozen for months and is very close to becoming
> stable; only critical bug fixes are allowed at this point, so the API
> and ABI are really "stable" already.  In fact, at this point in time I
> recommend you install that and in a couple months time you'll find that
> the upgrade to the real "stable" will be minimal.
> 
> [Anecdote: last week I installed Wheezy on a 12-year-old Apple
> "Clamshell" iBook with 320 Mb of RAM and a 366-mHz PowerPC 750CX
> processor; works like a charm].

Does that include a PowerPC 750 GNAT 4.6?

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