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Re: GCC 4.0.2 Status (Ada)
Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> The patch to restore Ada bootstrap is a one liner: just revert
> the gimplify.c part of 2005-09-24 Richard Henderson's change
> in your tree (see below).
>
> I don't know what is the policy on patches that break Ada on x86-linux
> (here by revealing a latent middle-end bug - but I think latent or not
> policy is the same) bootstrap once identified (this particular patch has
> no PR mentionned or testcase).
There's no formal policy, but certainly we should try to ensure that Ada
is reasonably functional; it would be embarassing to do a release that
had a totally broken Ada compiler on IA32 GNU/Linux. Knowing RTH, I'm
sure that he'll look into the problem.
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