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From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley)
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Subject: Porting GNAT to a new target, was: Re: PDA Ada
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In article <3daa2c68_1@news.tm.net.my>, Adrian Hoe <mailbox@*nospam*adrianhoe.com> writes:
> 
> We tried to port gnat to 68K Dragonball (Palm) two years ago. It was 
> very tedious and lack of documentation and the port was dropped.
> 

I have wondered what kind of effort this involves, so I have a few questions:

What exactly is involved in porting the GNAT runtime to a new target ?

Is there any documentation at all about the overall process involved ?

What problems did you encounter attempting this port ?

Thanks for any information,

Simon.

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