Re: Ada policy

[Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>]

Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> writes:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> writes:
>> Whereas I cannot imagine how you manage to miss what is a clear
>> implication of the text of that message.
>
> The important point in the message is that it is critical that
> the C and Ada compiler be consistent
[...]

That may be what you see as the important point in the message, but it
is by no means the only thing said in the message, let alone the only
implication of the message.

This discussion is about appearances as well as actuality.  Can you at
least agree that a reasonable person could reach my position?  That is,
maybe ACT has never actually broken using an older GCC to bootstrap
the Ada front end, but can you understand how I and others have come
to the conclusion that your policy was not to keep it working?

>> A further step forward would be to state which older versions those
>> are, what your policies are for selecting those older versions, and
>> when the set might change.

Please answer this question.

> You did not reply about your pragma Unreferenced misunderstanding.
> I trust you are clear on this issue, and your mistake here???

You responded to the pragma Unreferenced citation by stating that
pragma Unreferenced was not actually used in the compiler proper.
That is new information.  It was not in the message I cited.  Can you
understand how a reasonable person, working from the information in
that message, could have thought that the Ada maintainers planned to
introduce uses of pragma Unreferenced into the compiler proper?

zw