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Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com> writes:

> <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote:
>
>> However I am discouraged with what you are saying about the bugs
>> being on the compiler side and not so much in the RTS.
>
> It’s more the bugs are in the Ada front end, not the GCC backend,
> which is the codegen.

There are also bugs in the front/back end interface, which can be
triggered by unusual Ada usages. But, (a) unusual, (b) when found, fixed
quickly (IME).

And there are bugs in the backend; e.g. currently some problems with
LTO/Darwin.