Re: AdaCore Community 2018 Bugs

[Roger <rogermcm2@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, August 11, 2018 at 1:11:31 PM UTC+10, Shark8 wrote:
> On Friday, August 10, 2018 at 7:06:52 PM UTC-6, Roger wrote:
> > I'm often getting this:
> > +===========================GNAT BUG DETECTED==============================+
> > | Community 2018 (20180523-73) (x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0) GCC error:      |
> > | in gnat_to_gnu_entity, at ada/gcc-interface/decl.c:2985                  |
> > | Error detected at gl.ads:27:53                                           |
> > | Please submit a bug report by email to reportadacore.com.               |
> > 
> > I usually get around it by rearranging code or finding just where in my code the bug is getting generated and working on something else for a while.
> > The bug request asks me to provide a large number of files which I'm not happy to do as in the past of had little success in submitting such bug reports.
> > Any recommendations.
> > Perhaps use a different Ada compiler?
> 
> 
> If you're trying to use Ada 2012 there's no other compiler extant. If 2005 there's more options, but none are free TTBOMK.
> 
> Randy's Janus/Ada is Ada 95 w/ bits of succeeding standards, but it's the only one that I know of that's in the "hobbyist" price-range.
> 
> My own Byron, while currently stalled, is an attempt to write an Ada 2012 in Ada 2012.

I enquired about Randy's Janus/Ada  and have been advised that there is no OSX version and that there is no home-use/hobbyist  pricing. Only qualified student pricing.