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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: GNAT and GCC 3.0
Date: 06 Dec 2001 20:04:32 +0000
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Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> I originally had the same issue with the "wavefronts" that Ron
> had. However, now that the official repository is the public gcc cvs
> tree, my level of caring about ACT wavefronts has dropped to near
> zero. If someone wants an interim version of Gnat, then the public
> gcc cvs tree is the place to go for it.  Internal ACT versions are
> just that: internal. I wouldn't want one now if it were offered to
> me.

But wavefront ACT versions are _supported_ which is a huge deal (for
supported customers who have no time to, for instance, build NT or NT
x VxWorks compilers).