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Re: RFC/Ada: removal of $(ADAC) support
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 14:01:07 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFC/Ada: removal of $(ADAC) support
- References: <10305122041.AA08257@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:
> But the problem is that the $(ADAC) mechanism basically *doesn't
> work*.
It achieves the goal I had when I wrote it, which was to enable
bootstrapping with no special effort on common free operating system
distributions that ship compatible Ada and C compilers, but with the
Ada compiler accessible only as 'gnatgcc' or similar.
> In general, you can't compile the Ada sources with a different
> version of GCC from the C files due to the potential for
> incompatible exception handling. Nearly all of the build problems
> with Ada have been due to this.
You rejected a patch which would have fixed this.
zw