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Re: [Ada 3.3] Backport compilation fixes
Arnaud Charlet <charlet@ACT-Europe.FR> writes:
| There is no guarantee that you can indeed bootstrap an 'old'/previous
| version of GNAT if you are using a more recent version as the bootstrap
| compiler.
|
| Starting such attempt is opening a whole can of worm I suspect.
|
| Anyway, I don't really have any strong feeling nor interest in the 3.3
| branch, so I'll let the 3.3 release manager decide whether these
| changes are suitable or not (in other words, I have no objection, but
| will also not give my OK on such changes).
I don't want to mess with Ada issues :-)
If Ada folks think that ability to build previous versions of GNAT
with recent bootstrapping compilers is of no value for their
community, I see no reason to endorse that initiative -- even though
I can fully see the benefits for GCC developers.
-- Gaby