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Re: patch for -Wno-long-long and early GNAT compilers
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu, mrs at windriver dot com
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:35:42 -0800
- Subject: Re: patch for -Wno-long-long and early GNAT compilers
- References: <20020319035723.26B18F28CF@nile.gnat.com>
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:57:23PM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote:
> <<I was frustrated because I and others were getting bootstrap failures,
> and the position the GNAT maintainers were taking was that it didn't
> matter because the configurations we were using weren't supported.
> Since the previous official word had been that they *were* supported
> although possibly not constantly tested, I felt bait-and-switch-ed.
> >>
>
> Perhaps I just don't understand. Reading your latest messages, it seems
> that the entire problem was that you were using a broken C compiler that
> generated wrong code for longjmp/setjmp. It's not the C compiler we recommend
> for compiling GNAT, and in fact, given that it is this broken, it seems a good
> idea to actively recommend NOT using this C compiler.
Um, no. The C compiler I used, that generated the broken code, *was*
the recommended compiler. Not the cc1 binary off your website, no,
but it was built from the GNAT 3.14p source code.
zw