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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Precisely why can't official FSF GNAT maintainers copy bug fixes
 in GNAT & its GCC-contained runtime en masse from GNAT GPL Community Edition?
Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 17:25:05 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2018-05-04, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
> Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>
>> There are two code bases; the AdaCore one and the FSF one.
>
> Pretty sure there's one code base, with a branch that AdaCore use to
> support their customers, and another for FSF GCC. The fact that merges
> are one-way doesn't negate this.
>

Yes, that would be a far better way to put it, thanks.

What I was trying to say was that there are two distinct versions
of the GNAT compiler and that changes are pushed in one direction only.

Simon.

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