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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- To: dewar at gnat dot com
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 01 12:19:16 EDT
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
One thing we have done in GNAT sometimes is to put a fix that breaks
things under a debugging switch, so that it can easily be turned on by
whoever works on understanding and fixing the breaks.
The GNAT sources are more akin to the GCC release branch than the development
branch since they need to be able to build a compiler that can be shipped
to a customer the next day. This is not the case with the GCC development
branch (but we should indeed treat the release branch that way), so I don't
think the analogy is that close.