Re: Ada for OS/2

[dwparsons@t-online.de (Dave Parsons)]

On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 21:26:19, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote:

> dwparsons@t-online.de (Dave Parsons) wrote in message news:<Ej0w7lFo08Zw-pn2-uCtRxTNVD6K6@jupiter.dwparsons.dialin.t-online.de>...
>
> > True, but since the OS/2 code is still in the baseline presumably it 
> > is tested and the results of the tests would include an OS/2 binary
> > which would in turn have to be tested.
> > If that is true, why not release it, or is the OS/2 code not tested
> > anymore?
> 
> ACT no longer supports the OS/2 version of GNAT, since there was
> insufficient commercial demand (we had one customer, who is in the
> process of switching to windows).
> 
> > If it is not tested, what does that mean for the quality of any 
> > private builds?
> 
> Probably they should be in fairly reasonable shape, since I still
> build on OS/2 for development purposes, though we don't do any
> formal testing of the OS/2 version at this stage.
> 

Thank you for your reply and sorry I took so long to reply.

Anyway in the meantime I have built GNAT 3.13p and GCC on OS/2
and have a couple of questions.

Firstly, when building an archive of the resultant files to
form a possible distribution I noticed that gnatelim and
gnatstub are missing from 3.13 although they were in the 3.12
archive. Are these no longer required or are they in another
source archive? 

The second point concerns testing. Is there an accepted standard
test suite anywhere that I can download?
I've had a look around ACT and AdaPower, but could not find
anything.

Thanks,
Dave