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Re: [Ada] Patch to fix bug reporting instructions (3.1 branch)
- From: Geert Bosch <bosch at gnat dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 16:13:15 -0400
- Subject: Re: [Ada] Patch to fix bug reporting instructions (3.1 branch)
On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 04:05 , Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> When you do the configure checks for whether the bootstrap GNAT version
> is
> recent enough (>= 3.13), you'll now need to arrange that the GNAT from
> GCC
> 3.1 is accepted, as are GNAT 3.13 and 3.14, but if there was an old GNAT
> version 3.1 ever, that should not be accepted. (And of course you
> should
> try to accept future versions - if the version number keeps the same
> format, it should be OK to use GCC 3.12 to bootstrap the old version GCC
> 3.1.) (Or make the configure test check for some feature, new in GNAT
> 3.13, that GNAT requires - this is the preferred approach if possible.)
We do not do such tests right now. There was never a GNAT 3.1, only
a 3.01 in ancient times. Compiling an older compiler with a newer one
does not work in general, because of run-time library issues.
-Geert