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Help installing GCC/GNAT 4.0.2
Starting with GCC 3.2.2, and the following versions of GNAT (distributed with Red Hat 9): GNATMAKE 3.2.2 20030222 (3.2.2-4) Copyright 1995-2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GNATBIND 3.2.2 20030222 (3.2.2-4) Copyright 1995-2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. I attempted to install the latest GNAT from gc... 26 Nov 2005 02:23

Don't use the "use" clause
In article <ulkzmsw5v.fsf(a)acm.org>, Stephen Leake wrote: You introduced a name collision by the 'use' clause; that can always cause name collisions. The proper solution in that case is to use the qualified name. I agree. I personally take it an extreme step further, and never use use clauses anywhere.... 23 Nov 2005 14:29

Debugger for GNAT
We are currently using the GPS debugger for our GNAT Ada applications. We feel it is not a very robust debugger, although that could be our limited experience with it. For example, we would to be able to break on any exceptions and view the offending line in the debugger and trace to the source. Also, we would like... 19 Nov 2005 19:40

Eclipse Ada Support - FYI
While poking around I see that AdaCore has announced (perhaps not yet released) support for a GNATPro eclipse plugin (primarily targetting wind river's workbench which is elipse based). http://www.gnat.com/pressroom_27.php There are now three Ada vendors with Eclipse support in some fashion (DDC-I, Aonix ... 26 Nov 2005 17:23

pointer questions
Hi, I've got some maybe stupid questions but I don't understand some things: 1. Is there a pointer like (void *) from C that points to anything ? 2. Is there a universal (like above) pointer for procedure|function that can point to any kind of procedure|funcion ? regards Szymon Guz ... 9 Nov 2005 21:44

Survey on the Effects of Organizational Culture on Software Productivity
Please forgive me if this is a little off topic, but I'm trying to reach a population of active programmers. I am conducting research on the relationship between some components of organizational culture and the productivity of individual programmers, development teams, and software companies. If you would be wil... 16 Sep 2005 12:04

ARM 2005 source
Hi Is there Scribe source of Ada RM 2005 draft available? (Like for Ada 95 http://www.ada-auth.org/arm.html#Format_Tool) -- Maxim Reznik http://www.ara-ru.org/ ... 4 Oct 2005 00:28

GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available
AdaCore announces the immediate availability of the GNAT GPL 2005 Edition. AdaCore is pleased to announce the release of the GNAT GPL 2005 Edition to provide Free Software developers, that is developers that distribute their work under the GPL (GNU General Public License), the latest and most advanced Ada 2005... 6 Oct 2005 21:35

Surprise in array concatenation
Seldom am I surprised by Ada semantics, but today they got me. type Int_List_Type is array(Integer range <>) of Integer; procedure Main is function F(a : Int_List_Type) return Integer is i : Integer; begin if a'Length <= 1 then return a(1); else -- calculate i s.t. 1 <= i <= a... 25 Sep 2005 13:51

How to byte swap an IEEE Float?
I need to read some float values from file that have been written in big-endian byte order from a c-program. The simple swapping procedure that I have just interchanges the byte order of type IEEE_Float_32 to get little-endian. The problem is that for some values (eg. 33.229000) it is a "NaN" when doing IEEE_Float_... 1 Jul 2005 18:55