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

Per Bothner per@bothner.com
Mon Mar 18 20:56:00 GMT 2002


Robert Dewar wrote:
> Are you talking about restricting GNAT to standard Ada? I so, I would say
> that's possible, but probably of the order of a person year of work, and
> some of the libraries cannot be written in standard Ada. Certainly not
> something we are about to do, since it would serve no useful purpose as
> far as I can see.

If by "libraries" you mean run-time (target) libraries, feel free to use
non-standard features, since that is not a boot-strapping problem.  The
issue is the compile-time (host) code that is written in Ada.  That code
really should be written to minimize dependencies on a specific compiler
version, whether it is written in C, C++, Java, or Ada.
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