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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c23d953faf0768ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-14 06:56:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone.bc.net!HSNX.atgi.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!216.196.106.144!border2.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:56:47 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:56:47 -0400 From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Questions about Ada Core Technologies References: <87oeq4vkod.fsf@insalien.org> <_tWdnRcoUor2zuHdRVn-tA@comcast.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.90.114 X-Trace: sv3-yxchOPdAF9i+bTlH1/f8BmKt33iSs1swNNG4UGI6rfXCZ1dWkX8IjfagQiPSEhmsjU6cVNlwJooma1E!pGR0WnuZtH9TpigIl87+H8apSga5uEIM8pjejcfP0Sgry6qXVnv1+e+aD+X0ig== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7089 Date: 2004-04-14T09:56:47-04:00 List-Id: Peter Hermann wrote: > I report a sad reaction from ACT: > I wanted to pay for a gnat3.15-compiler on my pet machine DECalpha > where I am frozen at gnat3.12p > without any need of support > but ACT rejected the deal. > Maybe DECalphaTrue64 is particularly difficult for the GNAT-compiler? No, they probably don't want to get drawn in to supporting older versions of the compiler. If they fixed a bug in 3.15 for you, would they also fix it in 3.15p? However, if you really want a 3.15p compiler on you DEC Alpha, get the 3.13p, 3.14p, and 3.15p sources and build it. It may not be necessary to go through the intermediate compiler versions, but I think the time you would save would not be worth it. You also may want to run the ACATS test suite against each version to look for regressions. The whole process might take a week, but if you set up a different account for it, your involvement could be just a few hours worth. For each iteration, you are going to be compiling the compiler and test suite twice. Having a script set up to do that should allow you to do one iteration a day, with your involvement being checking on progress, and seeing if there are any regressions to worry about. (You could also have to worry about different GCC versions. Same procedure, different compilers.) -- Robert I. Eachus "The terrorist enemy holds no territory, defends no population, is unconstrained by rules of warfare, and respects no law of morality. Such an enemy cannot be deterred, contained, appeased or negotiated with. It can only be destroyed--and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the business at hand." -- Dick Cheney