Re: Two GNAT questions

[dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Stephen said

<<Sorry, Robert, but since this question was posted on the newsgroup, I
assumed he was refering to the publicly available GNAT 3.10. That user's
guide makes no mention of "break exception", and on Windows, there is no
Ada aware gdb. The original poster did not mention what OS he was on, so
I assumed the most common (or at least the one I use :).

There is nothing "obsolete" about this version of gdb, since it is the
only one available for this platform!
>>

I was indeed referring to the current version of GNAT, which is 3.11a.
A version based on 3.11 technology will be made public sometime in the
future. But just as you do not assume that the free version of the Aonix
compiler represents the full capability currently available from Aonix,
you should not assume that the public version represents the most up to
date version of the GNAT system. We do make versions of our technology
available publicly, but generally we do this at the end of a development
cycle, so there can be a lag between the current version of GNAT, which
is the version available to customers, and what may be available publicly.
Furthermore, this lag can certainly be different for different versions
of GNAT.

There is certainly no rule on this newsgroup that only freely available
downloadable Ada compilers can be discussed (if there were such a rule,
the words Rational, Verdix etc would appear less frequently :-) :-).

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies