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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:35:57 +0200
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* Jacob Sparre Andersen:

> What I am worried about is fixing errors in GNAT and extending GNAT
> to handle Ada2005.  I am seriously afraid that _that_ is difficult.

The real problem we face in GCC 4.0 is that GIGI, the converter from
Ada's intermediate language to what is nowadays GNEERIC or GIMPLE on
the GCC side, hasn't been updated since 1997 or so.  This means that a
lot of things work by accident only.