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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Is 3.15p -still- the latest GNAT 'p' release?
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>Still, I've never used a compiler that was perfect and always succeeded in
>finding a way to get the job done anyway.  When you get a new compiler
>release, you may or may not get these fixed and I'd bet you'll get some
>new ones to deal with anyway.
   When you have code that needs to be portable across multiple compilers,
having to maintain a special "working around" version for one of those
compilers make life significantly harder.