[Ada] Bootstrapping mainline GNAT fails

[Zack Weinberg]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 06:33:48PM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote:
>     This is not "some random compiler version that's out there"; the
>     problem manifests with GNAT 3.14.  The sources must be changed so that
>     they do not provoke the bug in the older compiler.
> 
> Read the message carefully: 3.14p works fine.  What don't work are some
> kludged-up compilers that try to use GC 2.95 or GCC 3.0 sources.

I am using GNAT 3.14p to compile Ada sources, and GCC 2.95 to compile
C sources; the resulting object modules are then linked together to
make stage1/gnat1.  Is that what you mean by a kludged-up compiler?

I do not think it should be terribly hard to work around this problem,
and it would make life considerably easier for a wide range of our
users.

zw