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From: healyzh@aracnet.com
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Subject: Re: The GNU Ada compiler
Date: 20 Jan 2006 00:33:20 GMT
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Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-earth.ufp> wrote:
> In article <sGdW48rcHxe0@eisner.encompasserve.org>, Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> > In article <1691618.MhViCBI7GN@linux1.krischik.com>, Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> >> There are 700kb worth of special changes to the standart GCC in order to
> >> make GNAT work pleasantly on OpenVMS. So just compiling a standart GCC on
> >> OpenVMS might not be enough to have an well working Ada on OpenVMS.
> > 
> > So the GNAT which is on the publically accessible source repository
> > does not represent something that _ever_ worked on VMS ?

> This was the impression that I had started to develop after trying to build
> it on VMS, but I could never get the compiler actually built in order to
> test it.

> The build sequence hung the GNV version of the GNU tools available from HP,
> and it appears that ACT use their own version of the GNU tools.

The only publically available version of GNAT for OpenVMS that I'm aware of
is GNAT312P-OPENVMS7_1-19990629.EXE;1 as that is what is installed on my
system.

Add me to the list of people that would like to see a modern free version of
GNAT for OpenVMS.  I'd also like to see one for IRIX (SGI's Unix).

		Zane