From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,8a6e6d9458ae6ddc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s51.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeff C r e e.m" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <5ad0dd8a.0409221652.6a69b336@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: Is this a bug? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: <93L4d.103178$D%.86315@attbi_s51> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.74.171 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: attbi_s51 1095990597 24.147.74.171 (Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:49:57 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:49:57 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:49:57 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4074 Date: 2004-09-24T01:49:57+00:00 List-Id: "Stephen Leake" wrote in message > > Hmm. GCC does not _always_ include Ada; the only language in the root > gcc distribution is C; all other languages are in a separate > distribution. So "GNAT 3.4.2" to me means "GCC 3.4.2 with Ada > support". Seems like a reasonable abbreviation. > The problem is it seems reasonable but will eventually lead to version number collision. GCC 4.0 will be realeased fairly soon (Well somewhat soon). GNAT 4.0 was released in 1997. GNAT 4.0 was a fully certified implementation. Ada support in GCC 4.0 is likely to be pretty buggy. I think one can reasonably say (on comp.lang.ada) "I compiled the following with gcc 3.4.2" And if the sample code is Ada and the error is not "No Ada compiler installed on this system" then we pretty much assume that GNAT stuff is "in there". In any case it is not all that important....But with all the time we spend on the ADA v.s. Ada thing it seemed worth a mention ;)