Re: URGENT: year 2000 compliance

[Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>]

Larry Kilgallen wrote:

> In article <935487077.548895@dedale.pandemonium.fr>, "=:-) Vincent" <vincent.brosseau@bruker.fr> writes:
> > Does anybody know if GNAT 3.10p is Y2K compliant ?
>
> If you are looking for a vendor to warrant Y2K behavior,
> then you need something other than the "p" (public, free,
> unsupported) version.
>

I thought that ACT had put up a statement about Y2K compliance on their web page which - if all you care
about is a warm-fuzzy feeling about the compiler - ought to move you to the comfort zone. If you're looking
for some sort of guarantee or legal recourse, I'd think you would need a support contract.

>
> If you just care about "easily discovered bugs" then
> the test program offered may be adequate.
>

I think Y2K compliance would involve more than issues about the correctness of the package Calendar or any
other generated-code problems. It would also involve the compilation system itself, since this utilizes
timestamps to determine recompilation questions. I don't know how you would write a simple test program to
check that out. It would seem you would have to run tests while rebooting the computer with different dates.

MDC
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