Bug 20357

Summary:	Will a gcc-3.2.2 based Gnat (The Ada front-end for GCC) be integreted to Gentoo 1.4?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Daniel Tourde <daniel.tourde>
Component:	[OLD] GCC Porting	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4_rc4
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Daniel Tourde 2003-05-02 19:46:48 UTC

Hello,

I read the threads from Jan 2003 dealing with GNAT for GCC 3.2 (and especially
it's buggy nature). Has things changed since then? Will a gcc-3.2.2 based Gnat
(The Ada front-end for GCC)  be integreted to Gentoo 1.4?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Daniel Tourde 2003-05-02 19:53:45 UTC

Sorry, I did not see there was a GCC 3 group...

Comment 2 David Holm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-06-02 07:26:07 UTC

It is still buggy. GNAT only submits patches to gcc rarely.
It would be much better to use their CVS-version of GNAT5 (which uses gcc 3) since it is updated daily.
Personally I don't think you should use ada with gcc at all since the gcc people only wanted ada support because they could, not because anyone was interested in it. ACT is doing all the patches for them, so their release will always be more stable.

Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-06-09 08:24:23 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11204 ***