From: Norman Worth <nworth@comcastNOSPAM.net>
Subject: Re: GNAT Community 2019 is here!
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 18:05:52 -0600
Date: 2019-07-28T18:05:52-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <OrSdnduALp78paPAnZ2dnUU7-L_NnZ2d@giganews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58f620f7-5b01-4268-adb2-eac996152b84@googlegroups.com>
gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com wrote:
>> unfortunately GNAT Community 2019 ist no longer able to compile code of old Ada Versions
>
> It does: just remove the -gnat83, -gnat95 or -gnat05 switches.
>
> What the disappearance of the switches mean is that you cannot anymore downgrade GNAT to a "Ada 83 only", "Ada 95 only" or a "Ada 2005 only" compiler.
>
Unfortunately, there are many incompatibilities between Ada83 and later
versions. There are also some between Ada2012 and almost all earlier
versions. Therefore, it may not be possible to correctly compile code
written for earlier versions with the newest compiler. The switches are
useful for maintenance programmers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-29 0:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-05 13:15 GNAT Community 2019 is here! Nasser M. Abbasi
2019-06-09 17:43 ` Charly
2019-06-09 19:33 ` Simon Wright
2019-06-09 19:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-09 20:24 ` gautier_niouzes
2019-07-29 0:05 ` Norman Worth [this message]
2019-06-09 22:13 ` Fedja Beader
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