Re: Crosspost: Help wanted from comp.compilers

[Ed Falis <falis@verizon.net>]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:40:40 GMT
tmoran@acm.org wrote:

>   IMHO, it's a design bug that -s isn't the default for gnatmake,
> (and that -gnato isn't the default for something that calls itself
> "The GNU Ada 95 Compiler").


Ok, note that I work for Ada Core, but these features and decisions
precede my employment, and I really have no particular investment in
them. I'm speaking as an individual here.

"I don't like what was done, and wouldn't do it that way myself" is not
the same thing as "This is a bug".

Don't you think?  "This is a bug" is a much stronger statement, and has
to be made (IMO) relative to some generally accepted notion of
"objective" criteria.  In this case, I don't think labelling these
default behaviors as bugs does stand up to that kind of scrutiny.

I've worked for other Ada compiler companies that took different
decisions, and I don't consider those decisions "bugs" either.


- Ed