Obvious problem with Ada front-end patches handling

[Joel Sherrill]

Did you ever get around to looking at my hardware
interrupt task patch?  I know it dates back to Nov/Dec
but I quite asking about it during stage 2.  I submitted
it a couple of times this month on gcc-patches and
filed this PR so it wouldn't get lost.

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35576

-joel

Arnaud Charlet wrote:
>> Still no answer after two PING (December and February, for patches
>> submitted in November, and there are others not mentionned here). Is
>> there any Ada front-end maintainer handling patches proposals?
>>     
>
> Yes, as can be seen by other discussions on other patches.
>
>   
>> Since 2007-12-19, which is the date of the latest AdaCore batch
>> merge (three months ago), the Ada front end has only received the
>> following patches:
>>     
>
> Right, which is because GCC was in stage3 until recently, causing most
> patches/development to be delayed.
>
> I'm working on contributing many changes that were delayed because of
> stage3, which is why your patches haven't been reviewed yet.
>
> Once this part is done, we can evaluate where we are. Maybe some of your
> changes will have already been addressed, or will need some small updates,
> which is why it makes sense to wait a little bit.
>
> Note that there are many patches that we've submitted in other parts of
> GCC that also never receive any attention, so it's certainly not something
> specific to Ada.
>
> Concerning Ada, the situation is specific to the fact that stage3 (and in
> particular the last few monthes in regression/fixes only) caused things to
> be frozen, and we're now recovering from this state. I do not know if the
> situation is similar for other patches (e.g. middle-end or back-end patches).
>
> Arno
>   


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