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
distributed with the current version of GNAT, can handle much larger
programs.

Note that there is absolutely no requirement to use AdaGIDE with NT GNAT.
You can use EMACS or any other PC editor to prepare files, and then run
GNAT in command line mode (you may find it convenient to use BASH) just
as you would on any Unix system.