Re: gnat 2006 and windows vista

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org>]

Randy wrote:
> 
> No, don't know eclipse yet, I knew C and C++ and a few others from many 
> years ago but i not done any kind of programing in quite some time.  I 
> heard of ada some time ago but it was kinda hard to get more 
> information.  Now I have some old books and a new one and I have some 
> time on my hands so I thought it would be a good thing to look into it.  
> Though it was (most likely) not the best move I got the new windows and 
> now I have some troubles <sigh> but thanks for the information!  Glad to 
> have someone willing to help out, kinda hard to find now a days.

Just to reiterate, what you downloaded from AdaCore was an entire suite 
of tools. The IDE is called GPS. The compiler (GNAT) is a command-line 
tool, and you can use another editor and still use GNAT.

AdaGIDE is a good tool for a beginner. It acts as an IDE for GNAT and 
will run the compiler for you.

GNAT, by default, does not implement standard Ada semantics. In AdaGIDE, 
you need to check the boxes for integer overflow checking and stack 
overflow checking. If you use it from the command line, you need some 
switches:

gnatmake -gnato -fstack-check <main-procedure-name>

You can also stick in -O2 for optimization and -g for debug information 
if you like.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I was hobbling along, minding my own business, all of a
sudden, up he comes, cures me! One minute I'm a leper with
a trade, next minute my livelihood's gone! Not so much as a
'by your leave!' You're cured, mate. Bloody do-gooder!"
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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