Re: Will the World ever see something beyond GNAT 3.15p?

["Jeff C" <jcreem@yahoo.com>]

If you are thinking about using the mingw version of Ada be aware
that the debugger included in mingw is really not Ada aware and that the
debugger the mingw project is currently releasing is a pretty old version
of gdb (5.x series v.s. a 6.x series).


I have both a mingw environment and a cygwin environment setup on
my machine. I grabbed the latest 6.3 based ACT snapshot gdb from the libre 
site
(you can view the CVS of it at
http://libre.adacore.com/cvsweb/gdb-6.3/)

And built this under cygwin (need --disable-nls and make sure you have
thinks like flex and bison setup in your cygwin environment).

Then, by putting the resulting gdb along with a cygwin.dll in the path you 
can
run this resulting gdb on your mingw compiled Ada code without ever really
firing up a cygwin shell.  I have not used this debugger extensively but I 
can
confirm it works better than the one currently shipping with mingw.

I don't really have time to package this correctly and I really can't send
the binary (without including the source, having the source or a written 
offer to provide it
for some time).

But if someone tries this and runs into any issues I can answer a few 
questions.