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Re: PR 13722 candidate fix
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Jim Wilson <wilson at specifixinc dot com>,Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>,gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:53:25 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: PR 13722 candidate fix
- References: <87oeswjmg9.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <87k73kjlgs.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com><jead4gt9mn.fsf@sykes.suse.de> <87u12ngleb.fsf_-_@egil.codesourcery.com><20040123082417.GA25413@redhat.com> <87hdyngifd.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com><je1xpqtkos.fsf@sykes.suse.de> <87r7xqgwrx.fsf@codesourcery.com><jewu7is4m0.fsf@sykes.suse.de> <87ektqgvho.fsf@codesourcery.com><jeoesus266.fsf@sykes.suse.de> <8765f2gsfv.fsf@codesourcery.com><1075016444.1122.40.camel@leaf.tuliptree.org> <87zncbvetk.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> However, it is my understanding that breaks that affect only Ada are
> *not* considered critical, and in fact that there is no obligation for
> anyone to attempt to build the Ada front end.
In principle there *is* such an obligiation, though we have not been
enforcing it in the past for several reasons.
However, now that the Ada frontend is maintained very actively and
some long-standing installation/"portability"/... issues are getting
resolved, I expect this to change in the long term.
Gerald
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