From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,11519cc319994443,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: evans@evans.pgh.pa.us (Arthur Evans Jr) Subject: GNAT on the Macintosh: 68k status Date: 1996/06/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 158604921 organization: Ada Consulting newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: There have been several mentions here that there is a project underway to port GNAT to the Macintosh. Here's a bit of a status report from a member of the team who is working on the 680x0 part of the project. We have already released GNAT 3.03, and I am preparing 3.04 for release. The product itself seems pretty solid; I am waiting for input from other members of the team for some components needed to prepare a release that can be easily installed. While waiting, I've been using GNAT 3.04 and getting good results. Although it sometimes seems slow (on a Quadra-650), my subjective impression is that is always faster than the old Meridian compiler, and in many ways, _much_ faster. And, of course, it's Ada-95 rather than Ada-83. There will be a post here in a few days (I hope!) when the product is released. For now, further information is available at http://gnat-mac.com/macada/ By the way, we do not support tasking on the 680x0, and it's not clear that we ever will. However, tasking is supported on the PowerPC version. Art Evans Arthur Evans Jr, PhD Phone: 412-963-0839 Ada Consulting FAX: 412-963-0927 461 Fairview Road Pittsburgh PA 15238-1933 evans@evans.pgh.pa.us