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Re: RFC/Ada: removal of $(ADAC) support
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: zack at codesourcery dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 12 May 03 17:52:35 EDT
- Subject: Re: RFC/Ada: removal of $(ADAC) support
The systems under discussion ship a "gnatgcc" based on GCC 2.8, but a
"gcc" based on GCC 2.9x. This was done for very good reason, that GCC
2.8 worked fine for Ada but silently miscompiled C source code on at
least one architecture that that system supports. Second-guessing the
system integrator in that scenario, by forcing CC to gnatgcc, would
raise the risk of bootstrap failure due to a bug in the host compiler.
This isn't something we have to "guess" about. Has anybody tried the
experiment of bootstrapping starting with that compiler?
It seems likely it would work since lots of people bootstrapped GCC
starting with 2.8.1.