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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition - on the plus side
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:41:01 -0700, Steve wrote:
>
>> GNAT GPL Edition includes the first version of GPS I have run on Windows
>> that I haven't removed after a few days of frustration.
>
> I tried it and then removed after two days.
>
>> The compiler seems to just plain work (as usual).
>
> As usual, you said? I have an impression that the compiler has no less 
> bugs
> than 3.15p had, maybe more. This time I was unable to work around its new
> bugs in generics (some old ones are still there.) This is different to my
> previous [nasty] experience with 3.15p generics. So far I managed to find 
> a
> way around. But with GNAT GPL it looks somewhat hopeless. Especially
> because of its habit to report errors upon instantiation, do they use C
> preprocessor, or what? (:-))
>

Did you report these bugs to AdaCore with test cases?

In my experience, even if you're not a supported customer, they eventually 
get fixed.  Sometimes rather quickly.

Steve
(The Duck)


[snip]
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakov
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de