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Re: patch for -Wno-long-long and early GNAT compilers
- From: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- To: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:47:01 -0800
- Subject: Re: patch for -Wno-long-long and early GNAT compilers
- References: <20020319040516.360ADF28CF@nile.gnat.com>
Robert Dewar wrote:
> 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.
If by "libraries" you mean run-time (target) libraries, feel free to use
non-standard features, since that is not a boot-strapping problem. The
issue is the compile-time (host) code that is written in Ada. That code
really should be written to minimize dependencies on a specific compiler
version, whether it is written in C, C++, Java, or Ada.
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--Per Bothner
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