Re: GNAT GPL Edition - on the plus side

["Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com>]

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> I would do appreciate if they redesigned generics from scratch. Generics
> never worked right in GNAT. It looks much like an architectural problem...
> Maybe then they could finally make generic bodies reusable, error messages
> meaningful, generic specifications compilable etc...

What the Hell kind of code do you write??  :-) :-)

I've used GNAT for a long time, and 3.15p almost since the day it was 
released, and in all those years have run into only a single handful of 
bugs in the compiler--there've been a few in ASIS I've had to work around.

Right now the released version of DTraq is a heavy user of generics, and 
there have been no observed ill effects in that area.  (The next version 
that's under development, though, significantly reduces that use, though 
for a totally unrelated redesign reason.)  DTraq is over 40 KSLOC, so 
it's not a trivial amount of code, plus a few years ago I ported a 90 
KSLOC command and control system to GNAT 3.14, which never encountered 
any problems due to compiler bugs.

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