Re: GtkAda on Windows: Does anyone have a gtkada.gpr file?

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

Georg Bauhaus wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> On 18.10.10 14:43, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>>> But since GNAT FSF for Fedora/Ubuntu is quite broken anyway,
>
>> The GNAT in Debian (and hence Ubuntu) is far from broken and it works
>> quite well for me. I think your remark is a bit offensive given all
>> the hard work I put in the Debian compiler. In particular I backported
>> a lot of bug fixes into gnat-4.4, some even at your request (e.g.
>> http://bugs.debian.org/589164).
>
> I'm not sure, looking at The Computer Language Benchmark Game.
>
> Do you, by any chance, know the state of gnat-4.4 in Debian vs Ubuntu?

I don't follow Ubuntu; just keeping up with Debian is enough work :)
But in theory, they should be quite close as the same person is the
maintainer of GCC in both Debian and Ubuntu.  He also maintains GNAT
in Ubuntu.  Now it can be that other packages like the kernel and
glibc, or their configuration, introduce subtle differences between
Debian and Ubuntu.

> The Ada ranking in the Shootout benchmark appears to be suffering from
> gcc-4.4 in Ubuntu. The Mandelbrot program, for example, once ran fine
> and fast on all kinds of GNAT supported platforms.  It has now been replaced
> with its precursor (which runs more slowly), since the executable
> produced by gcc-4.4 gives bad output.
>
> This isn't the first time that GCC's GNAT part appears to be behind the
> C and C++ frontends, in terms of quality.  This spoils some efforts.
> What needs to be done?

Report problems through the Debian bug tracking system as precisely as
possible.
If you discover a bug in gnat-4.4 which happens not to be present in
GCC 4.5 or 4.6, I'll try hard to backport the fix.

As I've said many times before, not reporting a bug is the surest way
to never see it fixed.

--
Ludovic Brenta.