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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: DragonEgg has been revived
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Simon Wright <s.org> wrote:

> People are perfectly happy to use GCC for C-based commercial projects in
> spite of the fact that libgcc, and GNU libstdc++, if you're that way
> inclined, have *exactly* the same runtime exception as FSF GNAT's RTS
> and the GNAT Pro RTS.

It’s not just the licensing stupidity with Ada libs. On the C or C++ front,
they can easily go to Clang and get more targets, I.e. iOS, Ada programmers
can’t.

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