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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Compiler Bug or what I'm doing wrong?
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On 22 Jun 2006 18:53:18 +0200, M E Leypold wrote:

> There is a number of reasons to stay with 3.15p yet. 
> 
>  - There is AFAIK no packaged version of a (free as in GMGPL) post
>    3.15p Gnat fpr Windows.
> 
>  - Debian has 3.15p and will only switch to Gnat/Gcc in some months.
> 
>  - Changing now would mean, I have to build the compiler / toolchain
>    myself (and that on both platforems) and if things get bad, also a
>    number of libraries. Since experience is, that Gnat never builds
>    out of the box I'd rather forfeit the experience for the time being
>    -- not because I couldn't, but because it would eat up valuable
>    time, probably much more than I have put into debugging and will
>    have to put into writing a workaround.

+ GPL editions compilers still look more buggy than 3.15p. GPL 2005 is
definitely worse. As for GPL 2006, I've tried it shortly today, it promptly
has shown the infamous GNAT bug-report shield...

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de