Re: Ada -vs- GNAT

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:

> <snip>
> I actually am arguing very strongly for 3.2 to require 3.1 in the FSF
> environment for all sorts of reasons 

These days, when it is relatively easy to get a binary for gcc version
n-1 on most development boxes, this seems a reasonable course of
action.

> (it is interesting to note that those arguing against it are people
> who are typically outside the Ada community who are used to being
> able to compile C with any old compiler :-)

There have been times (in the not-so-distant past) when the only way I
could get a Gnu C compiler on a Sun box was to compile gcc with
the Sun C compiler. Then, the requirement "be able to compile Gnu gcc
with any old C compiler" was essential.

GNAT was never in that situation, and is in fact more widely available
than other Ada compilers, so the requirement "compile GNAT n with GNAT
n-1" is reasonable.

I don't think I'll every be tempted to compile GNAT for a 1750 host
with the DDCI compiler :).

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-- Stephe