Re: GCC 3.4 Ada compiler quality?

[Adrian Knoth <adi@thur.de>]

Brian Catlin <BrianC@sannas.org.bad> wrote:

> the new GCC 3.4 Ada compiler?  Is it worth upgrading from 3.15P, or should I 
> wait until 3.5?

I'd been using the 3.4-cvs for a while. Six months ago it was fine and did
the job. I think is is worth upgrading, but I don't know why ;) IIRC they
changed a lot in procedure-calls. Instead of pushing the parameters to
the stack and popping them afterwards they're calculating the variable's
address and do a normal subroutine-call afterwards. But consider this
as highly iirc, I don't even know if it's true at all ;)

Someone contributed graph-coloring-optimization-code, I guess it's for
automatically deciding which variables to use as register-vars (faster
than RAM-vars). But I'm not sure ;)

Besides this a bugtracking-system exists and I'd guess the Ada-component
itself was improved due to userfeedback. Dunno.

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