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From: Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk>
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On 23 Mar 2022, Simon Wright wrote (in article<ly5yo44bsm.fsf@pushface.org>):

> Find GCC 12.0.1 and tools for M1 Macs at
> https://github.com/simonjwright/distributing-gcc/releases/tag/aarch64-apple-darwin21-1.

Great news!
I might take the plunge and get a new MBP now.
Many thanks for this, Simon.

> About double the size of the x86_64 (Intel) equivalent.

Not so great. Any idea why? Is it a Universal 2 binary?

BTW I took advantage of an iMac in John Lewis last week and verified that
my (x86_64) KDF9 emulator runs perfectly on Apple Silicon under Rosetta 2.

Since I also have an RPi400 ARM version
(which is about the same size as thex86_64 version)
I expect no great problem with Ada on Apple Silicon.

The only problem I had building for the RPi 400 is
that GNAT did not want to do link-time optimization.

-- 
Bill Findlay