Re: Memory limits in Ada where Fortran has none

["Dr. Adrian Wrigley" <amtw@linuxchip.demon.co.uk.uk.uk>]

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 10:41:30 +0100, Martin Krischik wrote:

> I have got a AMD 64 GNAT right here. Works fine as long as you remember to
> use -fPIC. Of course any program relying on access types and 'Address
> beeing 32 bit will fail - most notably this includes trace utilities.

Presumably this is compatible with the LP64 model of the universe with
C longs and pointers being 64-bit, and ints at 32 bits(?)
GNAT "Integer"s stay at 32 bits?

Did you build the compiler yourself? (can it be cross-compiled with
the x86 GNAT?) What about third party GNAT packages (Florist?
GtkAda? PolyORB?)  Which OS version?

I'd love to move to 64 bit systems, but the cost and risk of getting
new hardware and (probably) building all the libraries still puts me off!

A success story from a c.l.a 'local' would probably be enough to
make me have a go.

Adrian
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Dr. Adrian Wrigley, Cambridge, UK.