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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: A bug in gnat/gcc 3.3.3?
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* Ludovic Brenta:

>> Yes! 3.4 is currently the best option. 3.15 is old, 3.3 is buggy and
>> 4.0 is still fighting with the tree-saa extentsion.
>
> I differ with this.  The quality of GCC 3.4 is similar to, but not
> significantly better than that of GNAT 3.15p.  Also, 3.4 is much
> slower and memory-hungry than 3.15p (it may or may not matter to you
> but it's a fact).

But this comparison is not fair because you are backporting fixes to
GNAT 3.15p.  No one is doing this for GNAT in GCC 3.4. 8-)

Due to the NPTL problem, plain GNAT 3.15p is probably not so useful
for many people with recent GNU/Linux distributions.