Re: Latest GNAT configuration

[matthewmajka@mac.com (Matt Majka)]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote in message news:<87lm6sjhga.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>...
> matthewmajka@mac.com (Matt Majka) writes:
> 
> > I am trying to start using GNAT in a RedHat 7.3 environment.
> > This is my first experience with GNAT since the sources have
> > been incorporated into the GCC source distribution.  I have
> > source distributions for binutils-2.13, gcc-3.1.1, and gdb-5.2.1.
> > I have also downloaded and installed various RPMs from
> > www.gnuada.org, which I am using to build the Ada compiler from
> > sources.
> 
> You should get GNAT 3.14p.  The RPMs at gnuada.org are still at 3.13p,
> which is not quite enough.

If I use GNAT 3.14p, which is based on GCC-2.8.1, will there be any
incompatibilities between my Ada object code and C or C++ object code
generated by the GCC-3 compilers?
 
> > However, when I try to debug a simple test program
> > I get an "internal error - unimplemented function
> > unk_lang_create_fundamental_type called."
> 
> AFAIK, this has been fixed, so you can at least debug the Ada program
> as if it were C (sort of).


To be clear, are you saying that there is a fix for GDB that allows it
to debug Ada programs compiled with the GCC-3.1.1 version of the
compiler?  Could you point me to it?