[Ada] Bootstrapping mainline GNAT fails

[Zack Weinberg]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:10:52PM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote:
> <<If exceptions are used only to signal fatal errors, then you could
> avoid ever actually _throwing_ an exception; instead, the runtime
> routines that normally cause exceptions to be thrown, would be swapped
> out for custom versions that called fatal_error()... sort of like the
> abort() macro in the other language front ends.
> >>
> 
> There are actually almost no fatal errors in GNAT that terminate
> compilation. The only common case is where the compiler blows up
> somehow after already detecting an error.

Okay, in that case my idea doesn't help any.

zw