Re: timeouts

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.org>]

Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au> writes:

> 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? 

Yes using the MingW compiler and not the one provided with Cygwin.

> 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.

Well, the GNAT Cygwin port is recent and does not support tasking AFAIK. The
MingW compiler should be more stable. If this is not the case why not use GNAT
3.15p which is (for a long time now) working fine for many projects.

> 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.

That's just not true. GNAT 3.15p is certainly stable. On UNIX platforms the
GNAT compiler which comes with GCC 3.4 is working fine AFAIK. And the MingW
(Windows) port of this compiler should be in good shape.

Pascal.

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