ANN: GNAT CE 2021 for Intel macOS

ANN: GNAT CE 2021 for Intel macOS

[Simon Wright]

GNAT CE 2021, built for macOS El Capitan .. Big Sur, at

Sourceforge:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuada/files/GNAT_GPL%20Mac%20OS%20X/2021-x86_64-darwin-bin/

Github (scroll down to the Assets section):
https://github.com/simonjwright/distributing-gcc/releases/tag/gnat-ce-2021

Re: ANN: GNAT CE 2021 for Intel macOS

[Bill Findlay]

On 17 Jun 2021, Simon Wright wrote
(in article <lytulwzcdy.fsf@pushface.org>):

> GNAT CE 2021, built for macOS El Capitan .. Big Sur, at
>
> Sourceforge:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuada/files/GNAT_GPL%20Mac%20OS%20X/2021-x86
> _64-darwin-bin/ [...]

That's great, thank you Simon.

I did encounter one strange compiler error.
A bit of trivial code that has been passingall
regression tests for a decade suddenly failed thus:

> raised CONSTRAINT_ERROR : erroneous memory access.

(without a line number).

Binary search in my code narrowed it down to this:

> full_ruler : constant String (1 .. 80) := (others =>  '_');
>
> procedure log_rule (start_a_new_line : in Boolean := False;
> iff : in Boolean := True) is
> begin
> if start_a_new_line then cc_list.log_new_line(iff); end if;
> log_line(full_ruler, iff); -- <====== FAILS HERE!
> end log_rule;

If I replace:

log_line(full_ruler, iff);

by:

log_line(String'(1..80 =>  '_'), iff);

the exception goes away!

-- 
Bill Findlay

Re: ANN: GNAT CE 2021 for Intel macOS

[Simon Wright]

GNAT CE 2021, built for macOS El Capitan .. Big Sur, updated.

The problems addressed are:

* Bad dylib path in libxmlada_unicode.dylib.2021: I hadn't cleared out a
  previous build attempt: fixed.
* Gnatcoll.Xref crash: this also affected emacs ada-mode: patched.
* GDB `file` command crash: patched.

Additionally, note:

* The Gnatcoll Python binding is (a) to Python 3, (b) to the
  https://python.org release, which doesn't install in the same place as
  the Big Sur Xcode release.
* Only the Sqlite backend for Gnatcoll DB is provided.

Sourceforge:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuada/files/GNAT_GPL%20Mac%20OS%20X/2021-x86_64-darwin-bin-2/

Github (scroll down to the Assets section):
https://github.com/simonjwright/distributing-gcc/releases/tag/gnat-ce-2021-2