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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2866100c9a2b8ce7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Free'ing extended types Date: 1996/04/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 151877725 references: <3180F084.7285@ehs.ericsson.se> <4xpw8uirui.fsf@leibniz.enst-bretagne.fr> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-04-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jerry said ": GNAT Compiler Version 3.04w Copyright 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ^^^^ That's not fair :-[" Jerry, I know you had a smiley here, but just so people understand. The w here in 3.04w represents a wavefront development release. We are continuously testing wavefronts in house and also we release the wavefront to customers to solve specific problems, and those customers then act as beta testers for the new release -- basically the way we work is that most of the time we can find work arounds for problems, but occasionally there is nothing else that will do other than to fix a problem in the compiler or to add an enhancement. In this case, we can immediately get a new version of the compiler out. The result is that by the time a pubic release is made, the new version is already field tested. Right now, 3.04 is getting close to release. We have a few ACVC tests to deal with, and one rather obscure regression. Once these are out of the way, we will release for Solaris and SGI, and then the other releases will appear soon after. One point to make which we will repeat is thta 3.04 is quite tricky to build, due to the incorporation of a new approach to exception handling (which particularly on Solaris and SunOS is a huge improvement in efficiency). This means following some special build procedures, so those building from source will need to pay VERY careful attention to the release notes.