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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable 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!news2.google.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is this a bug? Date: 23 Sep 2004 20:30:45 -0400 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <5ad0dd8a.0409221652.6a69b336@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1095985854 23408 212.85.156.195 (24 Sep 2004 00:30:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:30:54 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4065 Date: 2004-09-23T20:30:45-04:00 "Jeff C r e e.m" writes: > "Wojtek Narczynski" wrote in message > news:5ad0dd8a.0409221652.6a69b336@posting.google.com... > > > > GNAT 3.4.2 linux. > > > > Note I think you mean GCC 3.4.2 > > GNAT version numbers are disjoint from GCC version numbers and generally > imply a release (public or otherwise) that originated from Ada Core > Technologies. > > (e.g. GNAT 3.15p, GNAT 5.01a). > > The 3.4.2 designation is for GCC (which does not mean GNU C Compiler, it is > the GNU Compiler Collection). GCC 3.4.2 natively contains Ada support. 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. -- -- Stephe