[Ada] [wwwdocs] GNAT bug reporting instructions

[Toon Moene]

Zack Weinberg wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 07:40:55PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:

> > Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
> >
> > > Do you think a "In the case of GNATS, please also provide the
> >
> > "GNAT" ;-)
> >
> > > following..." or similiar paragraph would be feasible instead?
> >
> > The whole discussion of preprocessed sources is not relevant to GNAT,
> > and it will only confuse Ada programmers, and Ada has got its very own
> > issues (dependency on other source files, gnatmake flags can differ
> > from gcc flags).

> Preprocessed sources aren't relevant to Fortran or Java programmers,

Not so fast - if a Fortran programmer compiles a source-file x.F (upper
case F), g77 will run the traditional cpp on it first, before handing
the resulting file over to the compiler proper.

So in this case it _will_ be useful to ask the Fortran programmer for
"preprocessed source".

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