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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: The GNU Ada compiler
Date: 19 Dec 2005 14:14:09 -0600
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In article <1691618.MhViCBI7GN@linux1.krischik.com>, Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> 
>> In article <1500332.U7CjsdsL0l@linux1.krischik.com>, Martin Krischik
>> <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>> 
>>> I never thought there would be a demand for OpenVMS - thinking that any
>>> OpenVMS shop using Ada would have GNAT/Pro or DecAda or both.
>>> 
>>> However, I also know that there is a special OpenVMS patch to GNAT/Pro
>>> which is more then 700kB in size. Do I have to say more?
>> 
>> Yes you do have to say more to communicate to those of us who do not
>> have any experience with GNAT.
> 
> Well, you don't actually need experience with GNAT. You need experience with
> diff and patch ;-).

I presume you mean something other than the standard VMS utilities
PATCH (which is VAX-only) and DIFFERENCES.

> There are 700kb worth of special changes to the standart GCC in order to
> make GNAT work pleasantly on OpenVMS. So just compiling a standart GCC on
> OpenVMS might not be enough to have an well working Ada on OpenVMS.

So the GNAT which is on the publically accessible source repository
does not represent something that _ever_ worked on VMS ?