Revised patch for Ada bootstrap

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Richard Henderson wrote:

> Look, you're not certifying the compiler, so what in the world
> has this got to do with anything?  It's against a gcc snapshot
> fer chrisssake -- the C compiler may not continue to work!
> 
> It's a patch that makes it easier to take an existing packaged
> Ada compiler and build Ada in the FSF gcc tree.  As such, it
> should be applied.
> 
> If you won't do it, then I will ask the Steering Commitee to do so.

Why should it need to involve the SC?  Surely you can just use your global
write privileges to approve it.  When the Ada maintainers later want to
remove support for building with GNAT 3.13 and require at least GCC 3.1 to
build the Ada front end, then the SC can consider whether that feature
removal is appropriate at that time - just as they may some years in the
future consider a proposal that the C front end no longer need be
buildable with a K&R compiler.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk