From: Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com>
Subject: Re: How to build gnat on top of egcs-1.1.2, please?
Date: 1999/05/05
Date: 1999-05-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7gq0bu$ts0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37305FDB.44385920@aasaa.ofe.org
In article <37305FDB.44385920@aasaa.ofe.org>,
David Starner <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org> wrote:
> "David C. Hoos, Sr." wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Juergen Pfeifer wrote:
> > > - Should we by default build packages based on egcs?
> >
> > For the time being, I recommend the answer should clearly be: no.
> The answer should probably be no. EGCS produces better C & FORTRAN, and
> is far more C++ standard compliant than GCC 2.8.1. If you don't want to
> mix versions, and Ada relibility is not very importatant, then go with
> an EGCS solution
On the other hand, as several people have documented from time to time, it
is no big deal to mix versions, so that is the recommended approach for now.
Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies
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1999-05-05 0:00 How to build gnat on top of egcs-1.1.2, please? Gary Gourley
1999-05-05 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-05-05 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Gary Gourley
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-07 0:00 ` David Brown
1999-05-08 0:00 ` dewarr
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