Re: gnat310p on NT

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

Bob said

<<Anyone using NT gnat? Have a 4400 line package (body) running on Linux and
wanted to run it on NT. AdaGide croaked big time. Said code was too big and
to try with "colorizing off". Did this and couldn't save the .ini. It
locked up and had to use NT Task-Master to kill the Gide process. Cut the
size of the package down by 1500 lines (just cut them out) to see what
would happen. Could then scroll and save until I did a compile. Gide locked
up. Had to kill it. After doing this 4 times, started getting messages
saying NT thought the source was on a CD drive and door was open. Had to
reboot. The NT4.0 system has 64Meg ram and 11.5GB disk with Dual PPro/180.
Task Master shows not running out of memory (44MB reported free when Gide
loaded). Doesn't appear to be any way to configure AdaGide to allow more
memory/larger programs. Compiling with listing to a file finally allowed
ONE (1) complete pass without crashing. Closing the source window also
killed the Gide. Any clues???
>>

The version of AdaGIDE included in 3.10p is an old version intended only
for use with small student programs. Even a 2900 line package body does
not qualify!

We originally expected AdaGIDE to be restricted to this kind of use, but in
fact have found that customers found it a useful tool even for large
production problems, and the current version of AdaGIDE, which can be
obtained
directly from its author, Martin Carlisle, and which is used in the latest
version of GNAT