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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:41:30 +0000 (UTC)
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David Starner <dvdeug@email.ro> wrote:
: On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:14:20 +0000, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
: 
:> Latest and greatest = highest score in version number?
:> Versionitis.
: 
: Using the version of the GNAT compiler that comes with my distribution,
: and hence the one that matches the latest C compiler has many advantages.

I don't understand the "hence".

:  I'm able to compile on a larger
: percentage of the architectures

the ancient obscure ones you mentioned?

: that my C colleagues can, due to people
: porting GNAT on GCC-head instead of an ancient branch, and due to the
: number of architectures that were added to new GCC.

I gather then that this is not a personal computer architecture?
If not, a handheld? A cell phone?
If you will be developing software for sale for one of the
new million sellers, might not some support be very helpful?

: Also, some of the Ada
: libraries come precompiled for the GNAT version that comes with my
: distribution, and the Ada compiler and debuggers and other programs are
: tested against that version of GCC and the distribution. Old versions of
: GNAT do not support the libc I'm using, for one thing.

True. But you aren't saying that GCC 3.4 is old when it is not yet
released or that it is old in a year or so?


-- georg