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From: Ronald Cole <ronald@ridgecrest.ca.us>
Subject: Re: gnat-3.10
Date: 1997/05/30
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dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> If you see a public release of GNAT from us, then you know it has been
> bootstrapped, i.e. we succeeded in bootstrapping the HPUX 3.09 version.
> It's not too surprising that Ronald might not be able to do so without
> help from us, there can be tricky points involved in any of these GNAT
> bootstraps, which is why most people work with the binary releases.

Obviously you personally haven't tried to build gnat-3.09-src.tar.gz
with gnat-3.09-hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.10-bin.tar.gz while following the
directions exactly as given in src/README.UNIX.  Please!  Try it for
yourself and be sure to post your results.  Even with the following
patch provided by your team, the gnat1 component bootstrapped itself,
but it couldn't finish building the Run Time Library:

--- function.c~ Tue Feb 11 13:33:53 1997
+++ function.c  Tue Feb 18 12:32:05 1997
@@ -2963,5 +2963,5 @@
                                          0))
          || (GET_CODE (XEXP (x, 0)) == REG
-             && instantiate_virtual_regs_1 (&XEXP (x, 0), 0, 0)))
+             && instantiate_virtual_regs_1 (&XEXP (x, 0), object, 0)))
        return 1;


> As for 3.10, we never give any prognosis on schedules for public releases.
> A number of our customers are working with prereleases of 3.10 very
> successfully, and all we will say is that, as for all GNAT releases, it
> will be releases publicly some time in the future.
>
> Of course we cannot guarantee that when it is realeased, Ronald Cole
> will be able to bootstrap it on HPUX!
> (but we will have bootstrapped it!)

I hope you'll understand that I'll still question the validity of a
binary release that can't even compile itself without asserting a
fatal compiler error.

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