[andi999]

Some source on this?

[tobiasu]

this is unclear to me, what source do you need?

[andi999]

That if you build ada yourself your binaries later either have the runtime exception or that they do not need it.

[tobiasu]

Take as an example the gnat.sockets package from upstream gcc:

https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/ada/libgna...

Compare with the same file from the GNAT 2021 CE install:

GNAT/2021/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.3.1/rts-native/adainclude/g-socket.ads

you will find there are a bunch of blank lines where the runtime exception was.

[e12e]

But if you're going to use the FSF version, why not use fsf/distro binaries? Getting the source from Ada core still leaves you without the runtime exception? (Ada core is upstream/newer, fsf is downstream, lagging a bit behind Ada core(?)).

[andi999]

I might be ignorant, but you actually need the exception, otherwise it would be gpl, isnt it.