Re: Gnat, tasking, Vista

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

tmo...@acm.org wrote:
> >..., but 4.1 was OK again and the Ada part of GCC has steadily improved
> >since (i.e.  no or very few regressions).  I have a very good feeling
> >about the upcoming GCC 4.3
>   I'm glad that others have been doing the testing on the GCC Gnat.

That's part of what I meant with "support from the Free Software
community". By joining this community, you can even contribute much-
appreciated testing and bug reports.

> Perhaps 4.3 will be as solid as 3.15p, or perhaps 3.15p is incompatible
> with Vista and MS will effectively force me to GCC Gnat 4.1

I think that, yes, Vista broke compatibility with old executables
compiled with GNAT 3.15p. I know that GNAT GPL 2007 edition was
specifically revised to support Vista. Chances are high that this
support is already in GCC 4.3 but probably not in 4.1. I don't use
Vista (or any proprietary software) myself so I wouldn't know.

> When is 4.3 expected?

GCC 4.3 entered regressions-only mode today [1]. As usual, no date has
yet been announced but I think the release will take place in the next
couple of months. Of course, nothing forces you to wait for a release;
you can use a weekly snapshot at any time and test Vista support for
yourself. The Ada part of GCC will probably not change anymore now.

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-01/msg00387.html

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Ludovic Brenta.