Re: Ada not mentioned in GCC 4.3 release notes

[Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi>]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:35:21 GMT anon wrote:

> Actual, any GCC after GCC-4.00 had Ada 2005.  
> 
> The problem may be that Adacore has not update the GPL license from 2 
> to 3 and all GNU GCC type packages are to be under the GPL 3 license.

Ada components of GNU GCC are under GPLv3 (+linking exception):
http://gcc.gnu.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=128332

> In <9cd86244-11e5-45a1-b77b-1fb13e99b9ee@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net> writes:
> >I'm just wondering why "GCC 4.3 Release Series Changes, New Features,
> >and Fixes" at http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.3/changes.html not mention Ada
> >anywhere? There is a section of changes to specific languages but not
> >Ada. I thought that 4.3 was the first gcc to handle Ada 2005, surely
> >worth mentioning.
> >
> >Jerry

Ada maintainers probably either forgot to update the changes or they
are just not that interested in updating them. 4.2 changes was also
missing Ada section. 4.0 and 4.1 had some notes.

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