From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Commercial ada compilers vs gcc ada compilier
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 09:26:12 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2019-11-05T09:26:12-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ce6652b-c15c-4b27-b085-78aa782ea4d1@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4b0fddf-9b6c-45d5-90ae-d1f4b67f7793@googlegroups.com>
On Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 10:12:08 AM UTC-7, Alain De Vos wrote:
> What do commercial ada compilers provide more than the gcc ones for the user of them?
More diversity in the ecosystem, error-checking (having multiple compilers compiling the same source and checking the operation of the compiled output against them is good for ensuring the standard is being implemented correctly), some of them also have some nice proprietary libraries that may be pretty useful.
> In short what can I do with one what I cannot do with the other for legal raisons ? And what with the use of external libraries.
The legal-complications are (IMO) due to there being three 'versions' of GNAT:
1: AdaCore's Community edition, which has a GPLed runtime.
2: AdaCore's Pro edition, which does not.
3: FSF's edition which has runtime- and generic-exception [IIRC] to the GPL.
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2019-11-05 17:12 Commercial ada compilers vs gcc ada compilier Alain De Vos
2019-11-05 17:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-11-05 17:26 ` Shark8 [this message]
2019-11-05 21:57 ` Simon Wright
2019-11-07 23:55 ` Stephen Leake
2019-11-09 21:58 ` Norman Worth
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