Re: Which GCC compiler for Linux-GNAT

[Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>]

Bernard WEISSER wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> Until now, I used GNAT 3.15 compiler built on top of a GCC 2.8.1 
> compiler and all was perfect for me, except that I has to use this GCC 
> 2.8.1 compiler for all my regular C sources (in fact not a really a 
> problem). I got that GNAT distribution from the FTP 'cs.nyu.edu' server.

No you don't have to do that. You can have several gcc installed.

> With the arrival of the new LINUX Slackware 9.0 release, it appeared to 
> me that now a full bunch of compilers is provided (and ready to use), 
> namely : C, C++, F77 and GNAT 3.15. All these front-ends are based on 
> the unique GCC 3.2.2 compiler version. Using this new GNAT version, I 
> succeded to compile a rather complex Ada application, but it turned out 
> that the binary run quickly ended with a CONSTRAINT_ERROR.

The Gnat-gcc 3.x series are not up to speed yet, so wait with upgrading
until they have finished porting them over to the Gcc 3.x backend.

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Preben Randhol                    http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/