Re: GNAT user-specified (via Raise_Exception) warning message size limit

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

marciant@earthlink.net writes:

> On Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 10:08:35 AM UTC-5, Vincent Marciante wrote:
>> > Thanks for the information regarding the ease of recompiling the
>> the runtime.  I'll forward this to my manager. He wanted me to ask
>> here before asking AdaCore.
>> 
>> 
>> We contacted AdaCore and I'll eventually post the end result.
>
> The response was essentially: Not trivial on Windows; find a
> workaround instead.

When (~2005) we had a problem with the runtime - we wanted to arrange
matters so that we could stream from our big-endian PowerPC target
(without changing the deliverable runtime) to our little-endian Windows
host machines - we were able to do the following (simple version):

* Copy the supplied s-strxdr.adb (now I see named s-stratt_xdr.adb) as
  s-stratt.adb to our own directory. This version streams data using
  eXternal Data Representation forms.

* Rebuild (with gnatmake) with the -a switch, which rebuilds the changed
  runtime unit(s) and any units which depend on them.

I don't remember asking AdaCore about this (though we were supported).

However, this cunning wheeze doesn't work with gprbuild.

As I recall, the Pro RTS came with a Makefile and instructions for
rebuilding the RTS. Perhaps things have changed.