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From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: GCC 3.4 Ada compiler quality?
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On Thursday 22 April 2004 13:57, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Brian Catlin <BrianC@sannas.org.bad> wrote:
> : I know it was just released, but does anyone have a good feel for the
> : quality of the new GCC 3.4 Ada compiler?  Is it worth upgrading from
> : 3.15P, or should I wait until 3.5?
>
> It has solved some problems for me having to do with private
> children, and with generic formals in certain circumstances.
>
> I find -gnatwa quite useful
>
> The project file support is better (though this might affect
> portabiliy).

I have had problems with the code generated when using -gnatn,
and sometimes when just using -O2 (mysterious segmentation
faults, exception handling failing etc).  I haven't noticed any regressions
when compiling without optimisation, compared to gnat 3.15p.

All the best,

Duncan.