Why not gnat Ada in gcc?

[Laurent Guerby]

Hi Robert,

I don't know if ACT has debated the issue, but assuming the GNAT
sources end up in the GCC CVS repository what will be the updating
policy between the ACT tree and the public GCC one? One massive update
from ACT per public GNAT version? Minor updates when GCC backend
interface changes are made that break the compilation of the Ada
frontend? Or more frequent updates?

If some people want to develop non trivial patches to GNU Ada
(affecting multiple files), how should they proceed (I assume by first
contacting ACT, but then)?

PS: I promised on this list I would package a test suite and a
performance test suite if the GNAT sources go in the GCC CVS tree.

-- 
Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>