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Ada updates frozen
- From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet at ACT-Europe dot FR>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 12:44:55 +0100
- Subject: Ada updates frozen
People,
This is to inform you that due to major recent changes in the GCC back-end
which completely broke Ada builds (it started with ia64, and now include
at least ia32 and possibly other platforms), I am currently not in a position
to test any of our Ada changes, so I have to hold on any update on the
tree.
The changes have been (and are being) discussed at length under this and
gcc-patches lists (about XFMode and co.), so I'd expect some improvements in
this area, but according to our analysis, the recent changes break
many assumptions in a pretty fundamental way, so it won't be a matter
of simply changing a few lines of code (unless we revert the offending
XFMode changes), which is pretty bad given that we are in stage 3.
It would be particularly bad if GCC 3.4.0 had no Ada support at all, even
if not part of the release criterias, that would be a pretty major
regression IMO, in particular given all the recent efforts to bring a
much more reliable and powerful Ada compiler in the tree.
Arno