From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,344332f209947007 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@gnat.com Subject: Re: Gnat Free ? Date: 1998/10/19 Message-ID: <70g7c0$3c8$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 402912331 References: <6volj0$250$1@uuneo.neosoft.com> <3620F843.39465221@home.com> <3621E42C.2920@Entenhausen.net> <700rfc$6h4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3627196D.720A@Entenhausen.net> <708040$4h4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <87pvbs6zb3.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com> <708n5d$7ds$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <70bgao$j7i$1@news.hal-pc.org> <70e04a$7bc$1@news.hal-pc.org> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x8.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 209.73.133.253 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Oct 19 20:27:44 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/2.02 (OS/2; I) Date: 1998-10-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <70e04a$7bc$1@news.hal-pc.org>, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > Finally! While I appreciate all the people who have made > suggestions directed > toward helping me get a copy of this working, what I REALLY want > to talk about > is the consequences of basing your compiler on someone else's compiler that > is being actively developed. For those of you who have made suggestions > I have already tried some of them, I may try others, later. Just to be clear, the someone else here is us! Richard Kenner maintains the version of GCC we work on, and is one of the founders of Ada Core Technologies. The development of GNAT and GCC are kept very well synchronized as a result. That is why for example it is the case that all GNAT patches appear immediately in the GCC snapshots. There are no GCC patches in GNAT that are not reflected in the GCC sources. What we do for any given version of GNAT is to baseline on a particular GCC version, and then apply just those patches that are needed by GNAT. That results in the patch file that you see. We could get the same effect by basing the release on a particular set of snapshots, but it is cleaner to key the release to an established gcc release. Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own