Re: ANN: Ada 2005 Math Extensions, 20100901 release

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

In article <m2y6bjmkr4.fsf@pushface.org>,
 Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:

> "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> writes:
> 
> > For future reference, here is the patch:
> >
> > <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-04/msg01623.html>
> 
> Interesting. On Mac OS X, GNAT GPL 2010 i-forbla.adb contains
> 
>    package body Interfaces.Fortran.BLAS is
>       pragma Linker_Options ("-lgnala");
>       pragma Linker_Options ("-lm");
>       pragma Linker_Options ("-Wl,-framework,vecLib");
>    end Interfaces.Fortran.BLAS;
> 
> > The compiler options from ada_math_build.gpr should work, e.g. 
> > gnatmake -a or gcc -c -gnatpg. Finally, copy the .ali and .o to 
> > your Ada library path, `gnatls -v`.
> 
> I don't see why you'd do this 'by hand' rather than letting
> ada_math_build.gpr do the heavy lifting?

Good point. I got used to doing it manually while nursing GNAT 4.3.4. 
I'm slowly coming to terms with GPS, but it won't stay off my lawn. :-)

> If you do do this, (a) make sure the .ali is read-only, (b) copy 
> ada-numerics-generic_arrays.ad[bs] too (to the source search path, of 
> course).
> 
> I'm having 4th or 5th thoughts about package naming. Perhaps I should 
> make it Ada_Numerics.Generic_Arrays? That way future compiler 
> releases won't get sniffy about this non-ARM package. OTOH, it isn't 
> broken now ...

Difficult call. I implemented Ada.Numerics.Generic_Complex_Arrays. 
Generic_Roots according to the (proposed) specification, but I don't 
know how hard it would be to move.

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