Re: Why does this happen?

[Jerry van Dijk <jvandyk@attglobal.net>]

Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> I suspect it isn't illegal, rather looks like a compiler bug; 3.15a1
> gives similar results to yours (only 4 lines of complaint!) whereas
> GCC-3.2 (and 3.1, 3.3) give bombs:

Yes, the gcc GNAT 3.1 and 3.2 that come with the mingw system are not very
useful. However, after the freezing of the gcc 3.2 sources, a big update was
done to gcc GNAT, and it is now a LOT better.

If you want to try for yourself, goto

        http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw

and download

        gnatgcc-3.3-exp-20021006-notes.txt.gz
        gnatgcc-3.3-exp-20021006.tar.gz        
        (and gnatgcc-3.3-exp-20021006.tar.gz if you need the sources)

and follow the instructions in the notes file. REALLY as it is not installed
under the current mingw distribution.

Note: the is currently no such thing as an gcc 3.3, and this is strictly
an experimental build. Although it is, IMO, much better then the 3.2 GNAT
version on Mingw, an ACVC run still shows some problems.

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