Re: GNAT 3.15 - GCC 3.x (Was Re: Format of .adp file).

["chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>]

sk wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> >Preben Randhol  wrote:
> >:
> >:> GNAT 3.15 has a totally new project file syntax; it looks like Ada (no
> >:> surprise there :). You might want to wait until that becomes public.
> >
> >Isn't the parsing code already in the current GCC tree?
> >
> >--  georg
>
>
> I suspect that 3.15 is not iminent and I am confused about
> the GNAT/GCC relationship ...


Isn't a 3.15 (of some sort) already used by companies?  *I* think so. 
If you mean a public release, I doubt we will see one but you never 
know.  Act seem to be concentrating on the gcc 3.xx integration and 
probably would rather be doing that and keeping their customers happy 
than prepping' a public release of 3.15 which would soon become outdated 
by the 3.xx effort (if they prepared a 3.15p then they'd likely have to 
divert work from 3.xx and it would hold things up on that front...). 
Still it's a weird world and you never can be sure of anything.

> Can someone enlighten me as to how future GNAT releases
> and GCC release will relate to one another

Aren't they going to be the same?  I thought that once integration was 
complete, gcc and gnat would live together, and act wouldn't be inclined 
to make special public releases, just work on the gcc tree (and their 
customers needs).  Would it make any sense to do otherwise?


> Better still, is there a web page or other resource which
> discusses the integration of GNAT into GCC etc ?


Unfortunately not really!  I've been trying to find out how things are 
going, but there is no progress summary *publicly available* and ACT 
seem to work away at it and then drop things into gcc 3.xx in 'big 
merges', so we only see any fixes to incompatibilities with the existing 
incorporated gnat sources and gcc quickly and big differences less 
frequently.



Chris
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