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Subject: Re: Status of GCC-GNAT versus GNAT 3.14-3.15
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"chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> writes:

> > I'm just wondering about how the gcc-gnat is doing. Is it getting up to
> > speed with the gnat 3.14-3.15?
> 
> I would also like to know.  Also are there regular updates to the source tree
> like other gcc front ends or are there big foldins after a few months?  Just
> wondering since there's little point in building the 3.3 set regularly if
> there's no change in the Ada front end, assuming the other front ends are
> fine.

There has been a big merge in march, which was too late for the 3.2 release.

However it is in the current CVS HEAD, which will become 3.3 at some later
date. For Windows -which is what I am working on- the improvement from 3.2
to 3.3 is huge. However there are still a number of backend problems and 
about 100 ACVC tests fail.

As for the update policy, you should ask the maintainers, which currently are 
Robert Dewar and Geert Bosch.

gr.
Jerry.

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