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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
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Subject: Re: When to expect bugs fixed?
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 19:55:13 +0200
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Date: 2014-11-01T19:55:13+02:00
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Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> Victor Porton writes on comp.lang.ada:
>> I reported some Ada compiler bugs in the GCC bugzilla. Will these bugs
>> fixed only after the appearance of GNAT 2015, or is there a hope that
>> they will be fixed sooner?

I expect this be fixed no later than in GNAT GPL 2015, because it would be 
damaging for AdaCore reputation to release a compiler with known internal 
compiler error.

> If past experience can serve as a guideline, these bugs will be fixed
> when AdaCore has no more pressing business to do, or when some unpaid
> volunteer dives into them and finds a solution.  The fixes will appear
> first in the Subversion repository of FSF GCC, in the trunk, and
> possibly they will be backported into a release branch (e.g. GCC 4.9 or
> 5.0).
> 
>> And when to expect GNAT GPL 2015?
> 
> From past experience, around May or June 2015.  But I don't speak for
> AdaCore and I cannot guarantee there will even be a GNAT GPL 2015.
> 
>> I work on a non-commercial open source project, but my work is paused
>> now due GNAT bugs.
> 
> I suggest you try to work around these bugs and not wait.  I've been
> working on mission-critical software for years now, with a support
> contract, but we've never been blocked by compiler bugs.  There is
> always a way around, sometimes a temporary one until the bug is fixed.

-- 
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org