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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
Subject: Re: When to expect bugs fixed?
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 17:00:40 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2014-11-03T17:00:40+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <964445653436726274.628409laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3881e$u26$1@loke.gir.dk

Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi> wrote:
> 1.11.2014 19:24, Victor Porton wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> I have had Ada/GNAT bugs open in GCC bugzilla since 2009 [1,2].
> So don't expect the bugs to be fixed anytime soon.
> 
> If you want to them to be fixed fast(er), report the bugs directly
> to Adacore. Once the bugs are fixed in AdaCore's internal GNAT versions,
> it takes 0..2 years before stable FSF GCC/GNAT gets the fixes.

This is another reason why Ada programming sucks sometimes. AdaCore should
use the FSF's bug tracker a swell as their own or every time a bug is
submitted to the gnat front end the Fsf bug tracker should send it to
AdaCore. 5+ years for a bug to be sitting around isn't good.

Luke


      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-03 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-01 17:24 When to expect bugs fixed? Victor Porton
2014-11-01 17:44 ` Ludovic Brenta
2014-11-01 17:55   ` Victor Porton
2014-11-01 21:02     ` Anh Vo
2014-11-01 22:41   ` Simon Wright
2014-11-01 22:48     ` Simon Wright
2014-11-01 22:57       ` Victor Porton
2014-11-02  7:36         ` Simon Wright
2014-11-03 15:46 ` Tero Koskinen
2014-11-03 17:00   ` Luke A. Guest [this message]
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