Reenabling Ada by default

[Giovanni Bajo]

Robert Dewar wrote:

> To me it is not particularly constructive to say that
> the procedure for Ada front end patches must match that
> of the C++ front end, since they are radically different
> cases (in the case of the C++ front end, knowledge of
> C++ is widely spread across the gcc development
> community).

This is false. The number of people knowing the C++ standard *and* the GCC C++
FE well enough to modify it is really a handful. If you watch closely,
contributions to the C++ frontend come from the maintainers (Jason and Mark)
plus maybe 3-4 other people, where Jason & Mark together still do around 90% of
the total contribution.

For sure, the *only* reason why I learnt GCC enough to submit patches and have
them approved is because there was a public gcc-patches list.

Giovanni Bajo