Re: patch for -Wno-long-long and early GNAT compilers

[dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)]

<<There is still something I don't understand, though.  You've said over
and over that you can't devote resources to making the Ada front end
portable.  The implication is that it's too hard.  My experience over
in the C front end indicates just the opposite; we don't have trouble
maintaining buildability with ancient broken pre-standard compilers,
and simultaneously making use of modern constructs.  Why is the Ada
situation so different?
>>

Are you talking about restricting GNAT to standard Ada? I so, I would say
that's possible, but probably of the order of a person year of work, and
some of the libraries cannot be written in standard Ada. Certainly not
something we are about to do, since it would serve no useful purpose as
far as I can see.

Note incidentally that the entire kerfuffle here comes NOT from Ada code,
but from C code, you were using a broken C compiler. You say "we don't
have trouble maintaining buildability with ancient broken compilers", and
then complain that we can't build using a badly broken C compiler. What
other broken C compilers do you have up your sleeves that we are supposed
to be compatible with :-)