Re: ANN: GCC 4.9.1 for Mac OS X Mavericks and Yosemite

[vincent.diemunsch@gmail.com]

On Sunday, October 26, 2014 12:12:44 PM UTC+1, Simon Wright wrote:
> dptrash@arcor.de writes:
> 
> > On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 4:45:54 PM UTC+2, Simon Wright wrote: 
> >> The compiler is GPL verson 3. The runtime has the GCC Runtime
> >> Exception, so executables built with it can be released on proprietary
> >> terms PROVIDED THAT they make no use of the the packages from GNAT GPL
> >> 2014, which are full GPL.
> >
> > 1) How can I find out if I am using something from GNAT GPL? Are these
> > the GNAT*. packages?
> 
> I said:
> 
> ========================================================================
> Tools included:
> 
> Full GPL:
>   ASIS, AUnit, GDB, GNATColl, and GPRbuild from GNAT GPL 2014.
> 
> GPL with Runtime Library Exception[1]:
>   XMLAda from the public SVN repository[2] at revision 233185
>     (XMLAda-SVN for short).
>   AWS from the public git repository[3] at commit
>     e0d260e2d5dbbd93577949307935848de2390818 (AWS-git for short).
> ========================================================================
> 
> Of these the only libraries you're likely to use in your own code are
> 
> GPL: ASIS, GNATColl
> 
> GPL with RTLE: XMLAda, AWS 
> 
> > 2) Is the Ada95 compiler in GCC 4.9 also improved?
> 
> It's an Ada 2012 compiler, which can be made to work in Ada 2005 mode by
> -gnat2005 or -gnat05, in Ada 95 mode by -gnat95, and (to some extent) in
> Ada 83 mode by -gnat83.
> 
> The (possibly incomplete) list of PRs fixed[1] in 4.9.1 vs 4.9.0 doesn't
> show any Ada-related bugs, so I guess nothing major (mind you, the Ada
> maintainers don't curate the Ada-related bugs very well). One would have
> to check the svn repo to be sure what Ada-related changes, if any, there
> actually were.
> 
> [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=4.9.1

I just installed it.. on Yosemite and ... yes it works.
Thank you !

Vincent