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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5f7d72bde5bb96de X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-03-26 03:54:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is 3.15p -still- the latest GNAT 'p' release? Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:54:22 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PVV Message-ID: References: <87wu5834r2.fsf@insalien.org> <40641888.80000@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: k-083152.nt.ntnu.no X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1080302062 25830 129.241.83.152 (26 Mar 2004 11:54:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:54:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6550 Date: 2004-03-26T11:54:22+00:00 List-Id: On 2004-03-26, Marin David Condic wrote: > Even if 3.15p is a little old, it seems to me that there wouldn't really > be much reason to complain about it. It works quite well and has a lot > of features and, since we're talking about a compiler for a computer > language, how much more does it really need to do? I agree. Besides work *is* being done to get GNAT up to date with gcc 3.x and this takes a lot of time (especially since gcc seems to be a moving target as well). As I see it this is one of the biggest improvements one can do to the compiler as one then hopefully can get better optimisation (I have forgotten the name, but both Fortran and Ada can do better optimising if the gcc backend is improved. I think this is something for 4.x.) So that Gnat 3.15p is from 2002 doesn't matter. -- Preben Randhol -------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ () "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" /\ - Isaac Asimov