Re: The GNU Ada compiler

[clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley)]

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.

Simon.

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