From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,235659b21b3d24ab X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-28 06:39:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <2t2r7.26711$QK.21818615@news1.sttln1.wa.home.com> <8766aajjvh.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> Subject: Re: Will there be a 3.14p version of GNAT? Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:38:53 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:38:53 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13463 Date: 2001-09-28T13:38:53+00:00 List-Id: In article , Florian Weimer says... > >Ted Dennison writes: > >> In article <8766aajjvh.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer says... >> > >> >Are there any ideas how to ensure binary compatibility across GNAT >> >builds from different distributors of the same operating system? >> >> Pardon me for a naieve question: What exactly, save a source code >> modification, would cause such an incompatability? > >Different sonames for the GNAT run-time library, or a diffent default >threading implementation. I'd say those both qualify as source code modifications. Yeah, the threading bit can be changed by renaming files, or moving a link or somesuch. But it is the same issue. If you do any of that, you aren't taking the defaults. Everyone who builds as per the instructions should get compatable Gnat builds. So on to my next naieve question: What exactly is the "nightmare scenario" here? Say one person has a Linux FSU-threads build, and another has a Linux native threads build. What bad things are you worried about happening? --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com