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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,30a9bb3017fa58dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,959627a08fbc77c5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: GNAT versions ( was :Ada compiler for PC?) Date: 1999/04/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 471819005 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <7fndu7$im4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7fud3l$hqi$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7g0bdf$3q9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7g3klg$26p$1@rtl.cygnus.com> <7g4oed$ko$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7g5ju3$qpb$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: sunu789.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de 925292333 1981 134.147.176.143 (28 Apr 1999 09:38:53 GMT) Organization: Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Apr 1999 09:38:53 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-04-28T09:38:53+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar writes: > A similar situation arises with Cygnus today, they invest > substantial resources to help with the maintenance of the > Cygnus tree, and those resources are enormously helpful to > the gcc community at large, not just to Cygnus. > > That leads some people to harbour suspicions > that Cygnus really secretly controls the process and > somehow twists it to serve their own ends, but really this > is quite absurd, and does not correspond at all to the > reality of the situation. It *does* correspond to the reality of the situation as Cygnus invests considerable manpower in the process. In a way, they are preparing well-trodden paths that are convenient for their purposes by investing appropriate resources. If they are not interested in some direction of work, they'll leave it to other parties. While I find no wrong with that, it would be foolish to deny that the willingness to invest a large amount of work in GCC *does* have a large influence on what direction the compiler development is taking. If a few larger vendors realized this somewhat more (Intel seems to have waken up to it somewhat recently), this could only help GCC development. CPU manufacturers actually should have an even larger interest as Cygnus in getting actively involved in GCC. It lends large value improvements to their products with minimal costs. -- David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-700-5570 Email: dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Fax: +49-234-709-4209 Institut f�r Neuroinformatik, Universit�tsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany