patch for -Wno-long-long and early GNAT compilers

Zack Weinberg zack@codesourcery.com
Mon Mar 18 20:41:00 GMT 2002


On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:57:23PM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote:
> <<I was frustrated because I and others were getting bootstrap failures,
> and the position the GNAT maintainers were taking was that it didn't
> matter because the configurations we were using weren't supported.
> Since the previous official word had been that they *were* supported
> although possibly not constantly tested, I felt bait-and-switch-ed.
> >>
> 
> Perhaps I just don't understand. Reading your latest messages, it seems
> that the entire problem was that you were using a broken C compiler that
> generated wrong code for longjmp/setjmp. It's not the C compiler we recommend
> for compiling GNAT, and in fact, given that it is this broken, it seems a good
> idea to actively recommend NOT using this C compiler.

Um, no.  The C compiler I used, that generated the broken code, *was*
the recommended compiler.  Not the cc1 binary off your website, no,
but it was built from the GNAT 3.14p source code.

zw



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