Re: linking C library functions in Ada DOS .EXE

[jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)]

Michael Feldman (mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu) wrote:

: Well, actually we're distributing 3.01 as part of ez2load. 
: 3.03 is available at cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat - I did not realize it
: was there till very recently.

Oops, that is what you get if you are in a hurry, sorry.

Though note that the 3.03 at cs.nyu.edu can be "dropped" into EZ2LOAD
and installs without problems.

: I've been testing a version of 3.03 compiled for djgpp version 2,
: which also supports tasking. Currently this is a sort of "beta",
: not-quite-fully-integrated. We've been discussing with ACT whether
: to release this 3.03. They'd prefer to wait for 3.04, because
: two distinct, and very different, 3.03's would be confusing.

I tend to agree. Getting a djgpp V2 version is important (I might then
stand a change of getting the forest POSIX binding running) but getting
tasking is even more so.

As soon as this "complete" Ada95 for DOS system is available, I am
planning on distributing it within the company. As it so happens, we
have been hiring a lot of ex-Fokker people among which a number of
experienced Ada programmers. And as a lack of experienced people within
the company has always been cited as the premier reason not to use
Ada...

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