* GCC 3.X Ada releases
@ 2002-11-17 11:21 Jerry van Dijk
2002-11-17 12:28 ` Adrian Knoth
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From: Jerry van Dijk @ 2002-11-17 11:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
A while back I made an experimental release of gnatgcc 3.3 for Windows
available through www.mingw.org. Meanwhile there have been some further
improvements (bringing the number of AVCS failures down to 47). However
I did not see any bug reports, so I wonder if there is any interest in
newer releases...
gr.
Jerry.
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* Re: GCC 3.X Ada releases
2002-11-17 11:21 GCC 3.X Ada releases Jerry van Dijk
@ 2002-11-17 12:28 ` Adrian Knoth
2002-11-17 12:54 ` Victor Porton
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From: Adrian Knoth @ 2002-11-17 12:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
Jerry van Dijk <jvandyk@attglobal.net> wrote:
> I did not see any bug reports, so I wonder if there is any interest in
> newer releases...
Sure there is. It is worse to lack support of something, so someone could
think Ada is not a choice for him and use decreases.
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* Re: GCC 3.X Ada releases
2002-11-17 11:21 GCC 3.X Ada releases Jerry van Dijk
2002-11-17 12:28 ` Adrian Knoth
@ 2002-11-17 12:54 ` Victor Porton
2002-11-17 14:47 ` Florian Weimer
2002-11-17 13:09 ` Jeffrey Creem
2002-11-18 7:50 ` Eric G. Miller
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From: Victor Porton @ 2002-11-17 12:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article <u1y5k30hg.fsf@attglobal.net>,
Jerry van Dijk <jvandyk@attglobal.net> writes:
>
> A while back I made an experimental release of gnatgcc 3.3 for Windows
> available through www.mingw.org. Meanwhile there have been some further
> improvements (bringing the number of AVCS failures down to 47). However
> I did not see any bug reports, so I wonder if there is any interest in
> newer releases...
About my type of interest (I think not only mine): currently the only reasons
which would cause me to switch to a newer version of GNAT than 3.14p:
1. Bugs found in old releases.
2. Improved speed of programs and speed of compilation, decreased
executable size.
3. Extensions in GNAT.* library.
4. Better tools and docs provided with the compiler.
5. New good pragmas etc.
It means that even having the possibility to download a never version of
GNAT, I will do it only before releasing some Ada software, not in the
meantime. So I have interest but not now.
Also we need some ASIS programs, where AFAIK gcc 3.x does yet not
support ASIS.
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* Re: GCC 3.X Ada releases
2002-11-17 11:21 GCC 3.X Ada releases Jerry van Dijk
2002-11-17 12:28 ` Adrian Knoth
2002-11-17 12:54 ` Victor Porton
@ 2002-11-17 13:09 ` Jeffrey Creem
2002-11-18 7:50 ` Eric G. Miller
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From: Jeffrey Creem @ 2002-11-17 13:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
I have been using the GNAT version from mingw.org...
Just have not hit any bugs yet. (Code I am working on with this is all
fairly straight forward stuff though
so I am not hitting any edge cases of the compiler yet)...
In any case, I am interested in new releases if for no other reason than to
stay current with
others working on the code on different platforms.
"Jerry van Dijk" <jvandyk@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:u1y5k30hg.fsf@attglobal.net...
>
> A while back I made an experimental release of gnatgcc 3.3 for Windows
> available through www.mingw.org. Meanwhile there have been some further
> improvements (bringing the number of AVCS failures down to 47). However
> I did not see any bug reports, so I wonder if there is any interest in
> newer releases...
>
> gr.
> Jerry.
>
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> -- Jerry van Dijk | email: jvandyk@attglobal.net
> -- Leiden, Holland | web: users.ncrvnet.nl/gmvdijk
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* Re: GCC 3.X Ada releases
2002-11-17 12:54 ` Victor Porton
@ 2002-11-17 14:47 ` Florian Weimer
2002-11-17 15:19 ` Preben Randhol
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From: Florian Weimer @ 2002-11-17 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
porton@ex-code.com (Victor Porton) writes:
> 2. Improved speed of programs and speed of compilation, decreased
> executable size.
Using GCC 3 increases compilation time significantly.
> 5. New good pragmas etc.
Pragma Unreferenced is nice. :-)
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* Re: GCC 3.X Ada releases
2002-11-17 14:47 ` Florian Weimer
@ 2002-11-17 15:19 ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-17 16:15 ` chris.danx
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From: Preben Randhol @ 2002-11-17 15:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
Florian Weimer wrote:
> Using GCC 3 increases compilation time significantly.
But this is because the gcc-gnat is still in development right?
I mean there isn't a reason for gnat with gcc 3 being always slower than
gcc 2.8 ?
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* Re: GCC 3.X Ada releases
2002-11-17 15:19 ` Preben Randhol
@ 2002-11-17 16:15 ` chris.danx
2002-11-17 16:30 ` Preben Randhol
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From: chris.danx @ 2002-11-17 16:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
Preben Randhol wrote:
> But this is because the gcc-gnat is still in development right?
> I mean there isn't a reason for gnat with gcc 3 being always slower than
> gcc 2.8 ?
gcc itself is slower that way back then. That could be having a knock
on effect on gnat.
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* Re: GCC 3.X Ada releases
2002-11-17 16:15 ` chris.danx
@ 2002-11-17 16:30 ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-19 6:26 ` Simon Wright
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From: Preben Randhol @ 2002-11-17 16:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
chris.danx wrote:
> gcc itself is slower that way back then. That could be having a knock
> on effect on gnat.
OK. But I guess it is better at optimising?
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* Re: GCC 3.X Ada releases
2002-11-17 11:21 GCC 3.X Ada releases Jerry van Dijk
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2002-11-17 13:09 ` Jeffrey Creem
@ 2002-11-18 7:50 ` Eric G. Miller
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From: Eric G. Miller @ 2002-11-18 7:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
In <u1y5k30hg.fsf@attglobal.net>, Jerry van Dijk wrote:
>
> A while back I made an experimental release of gnatgcc 3.3 for Windows
> available through www.mingw.org. Meanwhile there have been some further
> improvements (bringing the number of AVCS failures down to 47). However
> I did not see any bug reports, so I wonder if there is any interest in
> newer releases...
I have used it a little recently. Didn't hit any bugs (yet). So, there's
interest...
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* Re: GCC 3.X Ada releases
2002-11-17 16:30 ` Preben Randhol
@ 2002-11-19 6:26 ` Simon Wright
2002-11-19 9:31 ` Preben Randhol
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From: Simon Wright @ 2002-11-19 6:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org> writes:
> chris.danx wrote:
> > gcc itself is slower that way back then. That could be having a knock
> > on effect on gnat.
>
> OK. But I guess it is better at optimising?
I got the impression from snooping round the mailing list archives
that the slowdown was related to introducing new support (possibly for
GC within the compiler) rather more then super optimisation.
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* Re: GCC 3.X Ada releases
2002-11-19 6:26 ` Simon Wright
@ 2002-11-19 9:31 ` Preben Randhol
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From: Preben Randhol @ 2002-11-19 9:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
Simon Wright wrote:
> I got the impression from snooping round the mailing list archives
> that the slowdown was related to introducing new support (possibly for
> GC within the compiler) rather more then super optimisation.
I see. But still I expect Gcc 3 to be an improvement over 2.8.1 in the
code generation part :-)
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