Re: ada patch: Correct bug box, remove ACT-specific references (Take2)

[Graham Stott <graham dot stott at btinternet dot com>]

Geert Bosch wrote:
> On Thursday, Nov 14, 2002, at 13:49 America/New_York, Graham Stott wrote:
>
> > On a related note I'm unable to build Ada on the 3.2 branch using
> > a version of Ada built from the 3.3 branch. The problem is 3.3
> > doesn't like the 3.2 system.ads file.
>
> Yes, that is expected. The issue is that the system.ads file is read by
> the compiler at run time to determine a number of parameters in use for
> the target, such as choice of exception handling model. When a new
> version of the compiler adds more parameters, the old system.ads version
> is no longer sufficient. In general, you should build version X of the
> front end with version X or X-1.
>
>   -Geert
Argh so you are saying that Ada on 3.2 is newer than Ada on 3.3?
most counter intuative :-P

Graham