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Re: patch for -Wno-long-long and early GNAT compilers
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: zack at codesourcery dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 02 14:22:38 EST
- Subject: Re: patch for -Wno-long-long and early GNAT compilers
I can make arguments either way, but consider that there's
considerable time and effort been expended verifying that 2.95 and 3.0
compile the back end correctly, on a wide variety of architectures.
2.8.1, on the other hand, has not received much attention at all, and
is known to have problems on some architectures. So I think a patch
which allows people to continue using 2.95 or 3.0 for everything but
Ada is safer than a patch which forces everything to get built with
2.8.1.
I disagree because you are adding extra complexity to an already complex
process. Having one compiler run autoconf and another do the actual
compilations is asking for trouble, for example.