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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: timeouts
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Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.org> wrote:
 
:> Ok, my 2 cents on the thread on why Ada is not popular: No freely
:> available compiler that is reliable, with known bugs fixed, and can
:> compile available code.
: 
: That's just not true. GNAT 3.15p is certainly stable. On UNIX platforms the
: GNAT compiler which comes with GCC 3.4 is working fine AFAIK. And the MingW
: (Windows) port of this compiler should be in good shape.
 
Is the fact that GCC 3.4.1 runs the ACATS withouth a single
failure an indication of a compiler that you can not rely on?
(BTW, GCC 3.3.3's Ada part is not among users' favorites, afaikt.)

Otherwise, do producers of compilers for "non-Ada" languages
manage to convey the impression that their compilers don't
have bugs? I think that C++ compilers, or Eiffel compilers, or ...,
are praised to support almost all of the respective language
and libraries. Are there different expectations of an Ada
compiler?


-- Georg