Re: GNAT Question

[gisle@apal.ii.uib.no (Gisle Sælensminde)]

In article <EYNt6.1986$94.2845@www.newsranger.com>, Ted Dennison wrote:
>In article <7wLt6.19470$bL.1855137@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com>, chris.danx
>says...
>>    Does anyone know if i can use GNAT to do OS work?  I don't mean writing
>..
>>from C anyway.  Can I link DJGPP with Ada?  That might be a temp solution.
>
>There was a DOS/DJGPP version of Gnat one upon a time. Its probably still
>floating around somewhere. The most recent version I could find was 3.10p at
>ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/private/old/ez2load/3.10/ . I don't know if it can
>build programs that don't need DOS though. I'd be really interested in finding
>out myself. If you find out the answer, please tell me here or at my telepath
>address. 

The GNAT for DOS team at www.gnuada.org seems to have newer ports around.
See their homepage. These ports are not supported or maintained by ACT. 
They seems to have an alpha release of 3.13p and a stable relese of 3.12p.

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