From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Studying and Maintaining GNAT, Is There Any Interest in a New Group? Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:54:45 +0100 Organization: none Message-ID: <0001HW.213464550E84375C70000C7DB2CF@news.individual.net> References: <309225242.556906218.575482.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <2145221813.556924687.162377.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> Reply-To: findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net vZPIG9CQr6d1j5sJ6RDrWw5q7x2BDQe+4gOrLK9FbaTpO3ONMe X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:is+WThltXiOnfjxk63XLBsQQaSM= User-Agent: Hogwasher/5.19 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:54270 Date: 2018-08-27T17:54:45+01:00 List-Id: On 27 Aug 2018, Simon Wright wrote (in article ): > Luke A. Guest writes: > > > wrote: > > > > > However I am discouraged with what you are saying about the bugs > > > being on the compiler side and not so much in the RTS. > > > > Itīs more the bugs are in the Ada front end, not the GCC backend, > > which is the codegen. > > There are also bugs in the front/back end interface, which can be > triggered by unusual Ada usages. But, (a) unusual, (b) when found, fixed > quickly (IME). > > And there are bugs in the backend; e.g. currently some problems with > LTO/Darwin. Could you say more about that, Simon? It might explain some difficulties I have been experiencing. -- Bill Findlay