From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ea992d578e9f621 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: anon@anon.org (anon) Subject: Re: Restricted or no run time in Ada Reply-To: anon@anon.org (anon) References: <22a9c47e-bed4-40ed-9b6a-218655861989@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 2.0 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:30:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.65.198.12 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1199381405 12.65.198.12 (Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:30:05 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:30:05 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19178 Date: 2008-01-03T17:30:05+00:00 List-Id: In <22a9c47e-bed4-40ed-9b6a-218655861989@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, Lucretia writes: >On Jan 3, 9:58 am, a...@anon.org (anon) wrote: >> The "--RTS=zfp" just replaces the standard library path with "zfp" >> path. The runtine directory and runtime code must exist inorder to >> work. Those files are included in the PRO only. > >Yeah, exactly what I thought. > >> Plus, I do not think this guy (a hobbist) wants to use the free GNAT > >Why wouldn't I want to use the free GNAT? Typo! > >> which MaRTE did. Instead of spending $14K per year for an Ada >> compiler, when he could get one for a one time fee around $500 >> with complete documentation included. > >$500 for GNAT? IBM, green hill and others vendors start their Ada compiler systems around $500, of course it does go up from there but it is a one time free unless you want extented support. The problem is to most that those compilers are limited at the movement to Ada 95 specs. GNAT (non-PRO) is the only one that is free and open source. > >Luke.