Re: timeouts

[Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff C, <jcreem@yahoo.com> writes:

    Jeff> It is the latest public version of GNAT but not the latest
    Jeff> version. If you were an Ada Core Technologies customer they
    Jeff> are up to version ~5.02

    Jeff> If you want to stay with public releases you might want to
    Jeff> give gcc 3.4.1 a try.

    Jeff> There are pre-built binaries available for windows at the
    Jeff> mingw site. Note that if you have never used mingw before
    Jeff> you should consider downloading not only the compiler but
    Jeff> also the msys and MinGW packages.

As I am using cygwin, I tried the latest cygwin mingw gcc ada
compiler. 3.3.3-3

Unfortunately, my initial attempt has failed with an undefined symbol:
_max_path_len when attempting to compile AWS (required by my
application).

Is there anything else I can try? It would kind of look bad for Ada if
I had to rewrite the mostly working code in another language because
of suspected compiler bugs.

Also, for the record, I used a better routine to display the time,
there were no glitches, but it still hangs. I suspect it is related to
the number of times the select statement is entered, it seems to take
many hours before it will crash (eg. greater then 12 hours with the
select statement being entered 2 to 3 times a second). When it does
crash, everything else in the application still works fine (including
AWS server and other events in the same select statement), but this
doesn't help much without the timeouts.

    Jeff> Of course this is a lot to download just to "see if it
    Jeff> works" if you network connection is slow...


Ok, my 2 cents on the thread on why Ada is not popular: No freely
available compiler that is reliable, with known bugs fixed, and can
compile available code.

(I am basing this statement on the following assumption: there is a
bug related to time handling, it is present in GNAT-3.15p, and it is
the bug I am encountering).
-- 
Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>