From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c84654714c2f5945 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!atl-c08.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc01.usenetserver.com!ALLTEL.NET-a2kHrUvQQWlmc!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:13:16 -0500 From: "Marc A. Criley" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition - on the plus side References: <1u927xnbmsfw1$.1xg4jk31952ts$.dlg@40tude.net> In-Reply-To: <1u927xnbmsfw1$.1xg4jk31952ts$.dlg@40tude.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Organization: UseNetServer.com X-Trace: c741d434faf1da13cf30722390 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5645 Date: 2005-10-14T08:13:16-05:00 List-Id: 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. -- Marc A. Criley -- McKae Technologies -- www.mckae.com -- DTraq - XPath In Ada - XML EZ Out