From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Subject: Re: Overriding discriminants perplexes GNAT 3.14p
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 13:32:06 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2002-09-22T13:32:06+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <amkgom$5sm$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: amil7v$6897n$2@ID-77047.news.dfncis.de
Dmitry A.Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
: I suppose that when a bug has been corrected, it is out forever. (:-))
: [...]
: If they do it, then why there are still bugs in the compiler?
"The compiler" is maybe not a term that describes precisely what
a compiler might be, namely a program that may change as its
development incorporates new and better ideas, new features, different
techniques, support for language changes etc.. So a bugfix may in
priciple be removed when the part of the program that originally
contained a bug is replaced. This process may introduce new and
seemingly old bugs together with the new features.
Don't know if this is the case with GNAT, but would you say that
compilers shouldn't change when an increase in knowledge suggest
a change?
-- Georg
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Microsoft Windows--a fresh perspective on information hiding
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-19 2:32 Overriding discriminants perplexes GNAT 3.14p Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-09-18 16:45 ` Stephen Leake
2002-09-19 21:34 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-09-19 15:51 ` Stephen Leake
2002-09-20 22:06 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-09-20 12:29 ` Stephen Leake
2002-09-22 8:43 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-09-22 13:32 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2002-09-23 5:41 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-09-23 12:41 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-24 1:38 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-09-23 15:33 ` Stephen Leake
2002-09-24 8:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-09-19 18:22 ` Adam Beneschan
2002-09-20 22:06 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-09-20 16:00 ` Adam Beneschan
2002-09-22 8:43 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-09-23 21:18 ` Adam Beneschan
2002-09-24 9:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-09-21 13:01 ` Simon Wright
2002-09-18 16:46 ` Mark Johnson
2002-09-19 21:34 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-09-19 16:17 ` Stephen Leake
2002-09-19 20:02 ` tmoran
2002-09-20 21:10 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-09-21 12:56 ` Simon Wright
2002-09-18 16:49 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-09-19 21:34 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-09-18 17:17 ` Per Sandbergs
2002-09-19 8:51 ` Thierry Lelegard
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2002-09-19 9:08 Grein, Christoph
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