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From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say?
Date: 1997/06/30
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In article <dewar.867557676@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:


<Various things about ACT release cycles and rationales that I pretty
much completely agree with>

And then the really interesting bit:

> as well as getting better debugging support in place using gdb (we
> are very close to having gdb in Ada mode have 100% knowledge about
> Ada data structures, including packed arrays, variant records,
> variable length components depending on discriminants etc).


This sounds great.  One thing I've wondered about wrt gdb for Ada: is
it reasonable to think that binaries of this could be placed out with
those of GNAT?  Or is this an unreasonable burden?

/Jon
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