From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
Subject: Re: New to Ada, why these warning messages?
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 12:45:39 -0000 (UTC)
Date: 2016-01-02T12:45:39+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <n68gpj$h8m$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: n66sjg$ee7$1@reader1.panix.com
On 2016-01-01, Dale Dellutri <daQQQle@panQQQix.com> wrote:
>
> We have been told that programming in Fortran is old-fashioned.
> I don't agree, but there are other considerations, I'm told.
>
It's nice to see Ada being considered, but there's one thing I need
to ask: Which Ada compiler and operating system are you using ?
If you are using the Ada compiler in the FSF version of gcc, then
the following isn't a problem.
If however you are using the Ada compiler which is freely downloadable
from the ACT website, you should be aware that any executables you
create using that compiler are covered by the GPL and hence so is any
source code used to create those executables.
The FSF version of gcc has a runtime exception in the licence which
means that using the Ada RTL doesn't cause the resulting executable to
become a GPL based executable. The free Ada compiler from the ACT
website does not have this exception even though it is also gcc based.
Simon.
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Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-01 2:19 New to Ada, why these warning messages? Dale Dellutri
2016-01-01 2:47 ` David Botton
2016-01-01 5:54 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-01-01 21:18 ` Bob Duff
2016-01-01 17:30 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-01-01 20:20 ` Dale Dellutri
2016-01-01 21:24 ` Bob Duff
2016-01-01 21:54 ` Dale Dellutri
2016-01-02 12:45 ` Simon Clubley [this message]
2016-01-02 14:21 ` Britt
2016-01-02 15:29 ` Simon Clubley
2016-01-03 7:11 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-01-03 9:32 ` Simon Wright
2016-01-03 9:59 ` Simon Clubley
2016-01-03 14:23 ` David Botton
2016-01-03 15:48 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-01-03 18:03 ` David Botton
2016-01-03 18:20 ` Pascal Obry
2016-01-03 19:05 ` David Botton
2016-01-01 23:50 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-01-02 21:05 ` Bob Duff
2016-01-02 22:53 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-01-02 17:59 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-01-02 18:37 ` Paul Rubin
2016-01-02 21:03 ` Bob Duff
2016-01-02 21:08 ` Bob Duff
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