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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 02:26:07 +0000 (UTC)
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David Starner <dvdeug@email.ro> wrote:
: 
: I've submitted a documentation bug on GNAT that has not been dealt
: with.

Where have you sent them? to report@ or to GCC's bugzilla?
Many of the handful of reports I have sent to both addresses have
been answered, sometimes with most helpful additional comments.
(I'm not a customer. One documentation bug.)
This includes reports sent only recently to GCC's Ada maintainers
via Bugzilla, with answers from people with ACT and non-ACT
addresses.


: There are two GCC frontends in risk of being dropped in the GCC 3.5
: release because of large structural changes; Fortran 77, which has no
: active maintainers, and Ada. The cumulative effect is that GNAT is
: effectively unsupported, where most of the other compilers (Fortran 77
: excepted) are casually supported.

I don't follow. GNAT, ifaik, is the GCC based compiler offered by
ACT. GCC contains an Ada front end which appears rather tightly coupled
with ACT's GNAT sources. You can check this if you look at the
extensive ChangeLog in the gcc/gcc/ada directory.


: As GNAT is the only Ada compiler that is Free software, that has a
: negative effect on how Ada is viewed in the world of Free software, and
: how a programmer who intends his programs to end up in the world of Free
: software should react.

I know of only 2 Free Software C compilers, and of one Free Software
C++ compiler. If these numbers are correct, how should they have the
opposite effect on the views of these popular languages?


--  Georg