Re: Ada and GCC 3.5 tree-ssa

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>]

Ian S. Nelson asked:
> I know this has probably been answered but what's the plan with GCC
> 3.5 regarding Ada?
> 
> Is someone working on the tree-ssa modifications to the Ada
> front-end or is that still out standing?

My understanting is that Ada Core Technologies does plan to update the
Ada front-end for tree-ssa.  However, as for any other company, their
priorities are set by their customers, so it is not known just when
they will find the time to do the update.  This is a large change to
the Ada front-end.  As a prerequisite, it must support
function-at-a-time compiling.

The tree-ssa branch has been merged into the main line, and the
announcement [1] says that this broke the Ada and Fortran 77
front-ends.  This was foreseen, as evidenced by the various emails
that I reproduce in the Ada policy for Debian [2].  (BTW, I need to
update that document).

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-05/msg00679.html
[2] http://users.skynet.be/ludovic.brenta/debian-ada-policy.
html#Current%20state%20of%20GCC%203.5

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.



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