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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Reporting GNAT bugs
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Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> writes:

> If I found a serious GNAT bug, is it enough to report it at 
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ ?
>
> Or should I also ping someone so that the bug would not be lost and
> fixed quickly?

If the bug can be reproduced in GNAT GPL, send it to report@adacore.com
(possibly as well as at the GCC bugzilla; that way the rest of us get to
see it).

I've had quite good experiences at Bugzilla with bugs that affect the
build/ACATS, especially in the early stages of the release
process. Others not so much (I had a minor one about gnatmake not
showing the switches it passes to ranlib, which got improved to the
point of acceptance but then never got implemented).

The people who will fix the bug are (almost?) all at AdaCore. GNAT GPL
bugs sent to report@adacore.com may end up being fixed in their working
sources (there have been a couple of reports of this recently), and if
you are supported you will be able to get a wavefront release if you
need one. Otherwise, you get to wait for the next release of GNAT GPL
or the next major GCC release (now 4.10).