From: dewar@gnat.com
Subject: Re: Gnat Free ?
Date: 1998/10/19
Date: 1998-10-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <70g7r6$42a$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 70e04a$7bc$1@news.hal-pc.org
> it probably isn't worthwhile to update the GNAT source at all between GNAT
> releases because of changes to Gnu C, and that the changes to the Gnu C patch
> file would necessarily be released some time after the version of Gnu C which
> they patch, but Gnu C V2.8.1 has been out for seven months and (to my
> knowledge---I quit looking in May) no patch file for has been made for it.
Right, to our knowledge, no one has created a patch file for version 3.10 and
GCC 2.8.1. At least at ACT, we have never built version 3.10 with GCC 2.8.1,
because 3.10 technology was baselined at GCC 2.7. Yes, it would be possible
to create a new version of GNAT by combining GNAT 3.10 with GCC 2.8, but this
is work we simply do not do, because we prefer to put our efforts into
developing the subsequent release. We would far rather see 3.11 out sooner,
than make updated versions of 3.10 (for most people the gain in going from
GCC 2.7 to GCC 2.8 with GNAT 3.10 is insigificant).
Note that to a first approximation, no patches should be needed for GNAT 3.10
under GCC 2.8. That is because all GNAT patches are, as I previously noted,
included in GCC immediately. However, there are lots of other patches and
fixes in GCC 2.8 that may introduce regressions etc in GNAT 3.10, and we
simply have never tested this combination.
Basically our strategy is, as I mentioned before, to baseline each new release
of GNAT on the current release of GCC, with an appropriate minimal patch file
to correct any known problems. For example, GNAT version 3.11 is based on GCC
version 2.8 with an appropriate patch file.
Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies
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1998-10-10 0:00 Gnat Executable Size Robert B. Love
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-15 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Gnat Free ? Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-17 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar [this message]
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Bruno BEAUFILS
1998-10-25 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-17 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-17 0:00 ` The Ludwig Family
1998-10-18 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-23 0:00 ` system
1998-10-17 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-20 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Fred J. McCall
1998-10-17 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-10-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Gnat Executable Size geertbosch
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Lieven Marchand
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-12 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Dave Wood
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1998-10-22 0:00 Gnat Free ? Van Snyder
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