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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d6f7b92fd11ab291 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-16 19:06:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cyclone.bc.net!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030708 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Crosspost: Help wanted from comp.compilers References: <1058275843.720814@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F158832.1040206@attbi.com> <1058378673.35463@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1058390613.119827@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 02:06:02 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.202.76 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1058407562 162.84.202.76 (Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:06:02 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:06:02 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40378 Date: 2003-07-17T02:06:02+00:00 List-Id: Randy Brukardt wrote: > What's broken about that? Apparently, people needed to recompile some modules for debugging or optimization, and this triggered cascades which made them unhappy. Since the source files hadn't changed, they weren't being unreasonable in their expectations. Ada83 didn't require such behavior. GNAT doesn't exhibit such behavior. > I suppose there might have been bugs in the make tools in early > implementations, but that's not what you're saying. Huh? That's *exactly* what I'm saying! You're the one who seems to be saying that it wasn't a bug but a feature. Products which contain such features soon find themselves replaced.