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Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 16:13:16 +0200
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Eric Hughes schrieb:
> On Apr 30, 10:14 am, qunying <zhu.quny...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am not sure why you spend so much time arguing this which leads to
>> nowhere and yet you refuse to spend a few minutes to enter a bug
>> report?
> 
> Thank you for cutting to the chase.
> 
> I'm protesting. The AdaCore relationship to the free software world is
> broken. I won't be using GNAT. It's not my problem, and I won't be
> spending even a moment of my time fixing it myself.
> 
> I do see some worth, however speculative, in spurring people who care
> to do something about it. Given the reactions I've received, that
> worth is becoming increasingly speculative.

The speculation now is that a flaw or a bug in a compiler
can indeed become a blinking spot on the makers' radar screen,
even when posted to comp.lang.ada.

E.g.,

http://libre.adacore.com/2009/05/15/NF-63-I511-028-gnat/

(About System.OS_Lib when GNAT.OS_Lib should be used,
as discussed here recently.)