Mail Archives: djgpp/1995/03/13/14:44:06
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> 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.
Good!
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> 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.
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> Has anyone else tried this?
Well, gcc will be able to tell from the file extension which compilers
to use. I guess it knows how to do this now. That is one reason for
the very fussy GNAT rules on file names and file extensions.
You can also freely mix languages in one compilation command. That's an
aspect of GCC, not especially of GNAT.
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> Just an interesting observation.
Interesting indeed! I haven't tried that.
The GNAT team is _indeed_ "hacking on" various parts of the gcc "system",
especially the back end. Eventually, it will all be merged into the
"official" FSF stuff. But that is why, when building GNAT from sources,
one must have full gcc sources around, not just the GNAT sources,
which are (mostly) written in Ada 95 themselves.
Mike Feldman
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