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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Victor Porton writes on comp.lang.ada:
> I reported some Ada compiler bugs in the GCC bugzilla. Will these bugs
> fixed only after the appearance of GNAT 2015, or is there a hope that
> they will be fixed sooner?

If past experience can serve as a guideline, these bugs will be fixed
when AdaCore has no more pressing business to do, or when some unpaid
volunteer dives into them and finds a solution.  The fixes will appear
first in the Subversion repository of FSF GCC, in the trunk, and
possibly they will be backported into a release branch (e.g. GCC 4.9 or
5.0).

> And when to expect GNAT GPL 2015?

>From past experience, around May or June 2015.  But I don't speak for
AdaCore and I cannot guarantee there will even be a GNAT GPL 2015.

> I work on a non-commercial open source project, but my work is paused
> now due GNAT bugs.

I suggest you try to work around these bugs and not wait.  I've been
working on mission-critical software for years now, with a support
contract, but we've never been blocked by compiler bugs.  There is
always a way around, sometimes a temporary one until the bug is fixed.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.