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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Petition ARM to not hinder Ada
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 12:19:07 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:11:27 +0000, Simon Wright wrote:

> Paul Colin de Gloucester <Gloster@nicht.at> writes:
> 
>> ARM provides a copy of GCC with a customized configuration script which
>> is incompatible with the standard switch --enable-languages=ada for
>> configure
> 
> ARM have released GCC 5.2 (.1), which is not very incompatible with
> building GNAT.
> 
> The diff I made is at the end (I hope).

Let me applaud ARM for this, and contrast it with Texas Instruments who 
release a version of gcc for the MSP430 at

http://software-dl.ti.com/msp430/msp430_public_sw/mcu/msp430/MSPGCC/
latest/index_FDS.html

This page does include gcc source code - but it is incomplete - all Gnat 
and gnatlib sources have been deleted, so simply enabling Ada and 
building the cross-tools won't work.

So when I get round to revising the MSP430 Ada project (soon I hope) it 
won't be based on TI's own sources but the FSF  code.

-- Brian