From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,49eb370bfd3baa90 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!proxad.net!194.117.148.138.MISMATCH!pe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!pe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!news-out.ntli.net!newsrout1-gui.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfe1-gui.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" Subject: Re: Memory limits in Ada where Fortran has none User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1110070479.250902.220540@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <10789218.m0VIfUVMtG@linux1.krischik.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 11:59:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.100.88.147 X-Complaints-To: http://www.ntlworld.com/netreport X-Trace: newsfe1-gui.ntli.net 1110196756 81.100.88.147 (Mon, 07 Mar 2005 11:59:16 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 11:59:16 GMT Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8805 Date: 2005-03-07T11:59:16+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Dr. Adrian Wrigley, Cambridge, UK.