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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Rebuilding GNAT for mingw (32bit)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:12:15 +0200
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On 06/28/2018 01:01 PM, Jere wrote:
> So I recently ran into an issue using the FSF GNAT on 32bit mingw.
> It ended up having a bug in GNAT.Serial_Communications, which was
> fixed in later versions of GNAT found in 64 bit mingw.  Unfortunately
> I can't upgrade to the 64bit version and get a later version of GNAT.
> The bug fix was only a few lines, so I figured I could make the change
> to g-sercom.adb in the adainclude directory and hopefully recompile
> GNAT.  When I looked up instructions for this I found:

It looks to me as if you can change g-sercom.adb and recompile it without 
recompiling GNAT.

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Jeff Carter
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