Ada policy
Florian Weimer
fw@deneb.enyo.de
Thu Sep 2 13:42:00 GMT 2004
* Robert Dewar:
> Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>>>We can consider that sort of thing if we run into it,
>> No, you can't, unless you've got a time machine. The Ada compiler
>> which builds the stage1 compiler must support this option. You must
>> add it in advance, otherwise it won't be there when you need it.
>
> Sorry, I don't see the point. You can perfectly well override anything
> you don't like in -gnatg with command line options, nothing special is
> required in the compiler as far as I can see.
Sorry, I missed -gnatwn. It even makes style check failures
non-fatal. Apparently, it is indeed sufficient to add "-gnatwn" when
we hit bootstrap failures due to the problems I alluded to.
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