Re: Getting a symbol table from Gnat 3.15p on Windows

["Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

An interesting chicken/egg problem. If I had a real & significant project
that used Gnat and had a need for the kind of support ACT can provide, I
could go to the customer and suggest we need a budget to pay ACT their
non-trivial support fees. But if I don't have a project that requires the
expertise of the compiler writers, nobody is going to pony-up the cashish to
pay them to answer my questions. The only way to possibly get a project
going of this sort is to demonstrate to the customer that you've got
something that could work if only they'll give you some bunch of money. I
can't do that unless I can get my questions answered concerning symbol
tables and accessibility of memory. So there you are. I'm asking on C.L.A.
because its a good source for free advice and user tips.

BTW, given the nature of the project, Gnat need not be the only player. I
already don't use Gnat for the embedded compilation, so I'm buying into all
sorts of compiler incompatibilities already. (That's a more serious
long-range problem, but one I think I could solve.) So other compilers are
possible to consider, but again, I can't go out and buy a bunch of them for
evaluation and do this "On Spec". I've got to come up with a proposal for
something I think is doable and sellable with little time and no money.

MDC
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Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote in message
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> "Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org> writes:
>
> > Too bad Gnat doesn't seem to dump its symbol tables in a readily
accessible
> > manner.
>
> Have you tried asking ACT?
>
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