From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: A Win95 GNAT and UNIX GNAT incompatibility
Date: 1996/11/14
Date: 1996-11-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.847999850@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 56dq1e$t1i@saturn.brighton.ac.uk
John English says
"There are many curious problems like this (well, not *that* many --
stop hitting me, Robert! :-) but they are GNAT problems rather than
Ada 95 problems, and the GNAT people need to be told more urgently
than "the general public" do."
Yes, indeed, if I see a report of something that might be a GNAT bug
posted to CLA, I completely ignore it. For one thing, it is usually
woefully incomplete, and lacks the necessary information for a bug
report (full sources, detailed account of situation, version of GNAT
being used etc.)
Some of these "curious problems" are undoubtedly GNAT bugs, some are not,
but posting them to CLA will not bring them to the attention of the GNAT
team!
P.S. the fact that you get different behavior on two versions of GNAT does
not necessarily mean that you have found a bug, there are legitimate
system dependent differences, and of coruse erroneous programs may well
produce varying results. It is impossible to distingiush such cases from
genuine bugs without full information.
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1996-11-11 0:00 A Win95 GNAT and UNIX GNAT incompatibility Raymond W. Magness
1996-11-14 0:00 ` John English
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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