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Re: Ada policy
- 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, 30 Aug 04 23:28:15 EDT
- Subject: Re: Ada policy
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?
You have the quantifiers wrong. The statement was that there was no
*guarantee* that it would work with older version, that there was the need
for freedom to allow it not to work with arbitrarily old versions. That
doesn't mean there was a plan to purposely break it, just the reality
that the cost of having it be compilable by arbitrarily-old versions
may be more than the benefits of doing so at times.