Where did my constants go?

I just installed Emacs 24.1 on Mac OS X Lion, and found that my Ada code seemed to have been eaten away.

Building GCC with Ada on Solaris x86

This note documents (with some elisions!) building FSF GCC for Ada on Solaris 11 for x86.

A Makefile hack

I had a problem with GNU Make where multiple targets were created from one prerequisite.

Catching exceptions in GDB

There's a problem running gdb from GNAT GPL 2011 (which works fine with programs compiled with GNAT GPL 2011) on programs compiled with GCC 4.6 on Max OS X Lion and possibly earlier; you can't catch exceptions as you'd expect:

(gdb) break exception
Unable to insert catchpoint. Try to start the program first.

Copying an XML document, with changes

I needed to modify an XML document (well, strictly an XMI document produced by ArgoUML). An XSLT stylesheet did the job.

Lines of code

Recently, tonyg asked on comp.lang.ada for a code counter. There were a couple of recommendations, including gnat metric; however, my favourite is this shell script: