EGCS-970929 and GNAT-3.10p?

[Joel Sherrill]

> Fortunately, we know better now: Java !

That path has its own unique set of advantages and disadvantages.

> [ I did play with the thought to build GNAT in combination with g77  
> before the EGCS project emerged, simply to get a better grip on the  
> regressions g77's backend patches might generate and because people  
> were asking us (fortran@gnu.ai.mit.edu) how to build this  
> combination.  I gave up on this once I read that the GNAT test suite  
> is proprietary ;-( ]

A lot of the code used to test an Ada compiler is freely available.  For
example, the Ada Compiler Validatation suite is free.  The setup and
configuration of it is compiler dependent and that part is proprietary.
There are large bodies of performance suites like PIWG which are freely
available. 

--joel