> Tristan wrote:
> > I suppose you are using GNAT from Fedora.  Which version of GNAT is it ?
> 
> Fedora Core 3 has GCC and GNAT version 3.4.4.  I am building GHDL 0.20
> as part of GCC 4.0.2, but using the native GCC/GNAT to compile it.  Maybe
> that's the problem.
No, there is no required relation between GNAT version and the GCC you compile
GHDL with.

> I'll install the 32-bit FC4 which uses GCC and GNAT version 4.0.1, and
> see if GHDL works better when built on that.
> 
> > As far as I know, there has been no success on x86-64.  I think GNAT does
> > not work well on this platform.
> 
> Can you recommend any particularly good test cases to try to verify
> that GNAT is working correctly?
If the driver (ghdl) is working, this is a good indication.  However the
compiler itself (ghdl1) is much more complex and can have bugs due to bad
compilation.

Tristan.

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