Re: A bug in gnat/gcc 3.3.3?

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>]

Jerome Hugues writes:
> PolyORB does not support only Annex E. There is also a lot of
> efforts put on the other personalities !

Yes, I was aware of that.  In fact, it seemed to me that CORBA
received most of the attention.

> Besides, support for 3.16a1, 5.02a1 and GCC 3.4.0 concerns all
> personalities, except Annex E (aka DSA). The integration of PolyORB
> into GCC, to provide runtime support for Annex E, is in progress.

Is it correct to interpret this as: "PolyORB does not yet implement
the DSA, because this requires compiler support which is not yet
available in GNAT"?  Or is there a release of GNAT that does provide
the necessary support?

>> Is anyone aware of a binary distribution of PolyORB?
>
> You will find here some (really old) rpms of PolyORB 1.0p
>
> http://www.prz.rzeszow.pl/ada/en/GNAT-3.15p_rpms_EN.html
>
> I do not know any binary distribution of PolyORB, except this one. 

This collection of RPMs is truly amazing.  I'd never heard of it
before.  This web site will now be flooded with downloads.  Oleksandr,
if you read this: hats off to you!

I notice, in passing, that he also chose GNAT 3.15p as the common
compiler for all packages, even PolyORB.

> The mailing list may provide more information on
> building POlyORB if you contemplate packaging it.

I did consider packaging it but decided not to.  PolyORB is "generic
middleware" that needs to be "instanciated", and this is scary to me;
I would feel compelled to provide binaries for all possible
instanciations :) Also I do not have the time to maintain more
packages than I already do.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.