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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: GNAT 3.07 MsDos/DJGPP bug report to whom?
Date: 1997/10/22
Date: 1997-10-22T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.877577635@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.877577170@merv


Thomas Koenig said

<<<<The main problem of porting GNAT to egcs is the lack of a good test
suite.  Anybody care to donate one? :-)>>>>

Porting GNAT to egcs should be a trivially easy excercise for anyone
with some familiarity with GNAT (the current GNAT works fine with many
different versions of GCC -- providing EGCS is reasonably current with
respect to the FSF snapshots, there should be no problem (all the
necessary changes for GNAT show up in the GCC snapshots essentially
immediately).

As for the test suite, a most bizarre question -- the answer is of course
that you should use the publicly available ACVC suite -- what is puzzling
is that anyone working with Ada 95 would ask this question!

The only barrier to getting a port of GNAT to DOS is having a sound
DJGPP/GCC combination to build on. We got stuck because of a bug in
DJGPP signal handling that never seemed to have got fixed (apparently
it affected only Ada). Of course building a non-tasking version for
DOS is again a trivial excercise if you have any familiarity with GNAT.






  reply	other threads:[~1997-10-22  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-10-22  0:00 GNAT 3.07 MsDos/DJGPP bug report to whom? Steve Whalen
1997-10-22  0:00 ` Gautier
1997-10-22  0:00   ` Peter Hermann
1997-10-22  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-22  0:00 ` Thomas Koenig
1997-10-22  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-22  0:00     ` Robert Dewar [this message]
     [not found]       ` <62n8j8$hj4@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
     [not found]         ` <dewar.877607416@merv>
1997-10-23  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-10-23  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-25  0:00               ` Jerry van Dijk
1997-10-25  0:00   ` Richard Kenner
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