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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 23:08:10 +0200
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available
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Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> As before, please feel free to add to this matrix or amend your vote
> as necessary.  In the mean time, this looks like a landslide, I hope
> AdaCore is listening :)

Can I extent the Debian GNAT horizon a bit? The Ada part of the 4.0.x
compiler in the FSF tree hasn't changed for some time, and probably
won't change any more. If the C part does change, then this doesn not
seem to be true for the FSF Ada part.
GCC 4.0.x is really a tad old:

- The gcc/ada ChangeLog of the latest snapshot of the 4.0.x distribution
stops on April 24, 2005.

Starting end of April, when GCC 4.0.x Ada changes stopped,
there are 3_225 lines of ChangeLog entries documenting lots
of corrections, and improvements introducing Ada 2005 features.

- There are a number of does-not-work, internal compiler errors,
outdated Ada.Containers, o_o.op(...) notation not working properly,
etc. etc. in 4.0.x

Are we talking about GCC 4.0.x as is, with only some support for
Ada 2005, part of it not working?

If "The next Debian system compiler is going to be...!(bang)", then
does this require that the Ada part is based on sources that
have not changed since 2005-04-24? Is there an ABI issue?