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Re: [Ada] Clean up handling of "big" pointers

From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>
To: Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149 dot net>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:09:40 +0200
Subject: Re: [Ada] Clean up handling of "big" pointers
References: <20080410072643.GA2869@adacore.com> <2008-04-10-09-50-05+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net>

> If this is a security fix, it should probably be backported to open
> branches as well.

It's not a security fix, since it affects only the gnat tools, and not
Ada applications. The main issue was some random failure to compile some
files in extreme cases.

Arno

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