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From:	Mark Elston <elston AT cave DOT arc DOT nasa DOT gov>
Date:	Mon, 13 Mar 1995 08:04:57 -0800
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Ada and djgpp

I recently got the DOS version of GNAT, the GNU Ada-9x compiler
(supposed to work with djgpp).  I unzipped the files into a separate
directory tree just to take a look at what was there.  I tested it as
indicated in the readme file and all seemed to work very well.

In looking at the bin directory I decided to move just the files that
were specific to GNAT over to my djgpp/bin directory and move the GNAT
gcc.exe to djgpp/bin/ada.exe.  This would allow me to upgrade the two
systems independently.

I then repeated the tests (after moving the libraries, include files,
etc) and was I surprised!!  Not only did everything work as
advertised, it did so using gcc as the compiler (I forgot to change
the makefile to use ada.exe).

My question is this.  Is GCC 2.6.3 *supposed* to know what executables
(gnat-stuff) to use to compile Ada programs?  Djgpp seems to.

Has anyone else tried this?

Just an interesting observation.

Mark.

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