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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,672cb5a7ed847988 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-21 11:52:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!not-for-mail From: Adrian Knoth Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GCC 3.4 Ada compiler quality? Date: 21 Apr 2004 18:52:58 GMT Organization: loris.TV Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ppc212.mipool.uni-jena.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: fsuj29.rz.uni-jena.de 1082573578 16462 141.35.13.112 (21 Apr 2004 18:52:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@rz.uni-jena.de NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Apr 2004 18:52:58 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7393 Date: 2004-04-21T18:52:58+00:00 List-Id: Brian Catlin 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. -- mail: adi@thur.de http://adi.thur.de PGP: v2-key via keyserver Q: Was passiert, wenn eine deutsche Blondine nach �sterreich auswandert? A: In beiden L�ndern steigt der durchschnittliche IQ. (aus de.talk.jokes)