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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada on Apple's new procesors
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On 30/06/2020 22:57, Simon Wright wrote:
> No.

No.

> The RTS released with GNAT CE has had the runtime exception removed, so

I don't care about GNAT CE, I don't use it, never have because it has
the LE removed.

> it's pure GPL. The RTS released to customers is 99.99% the same, but it
> hasn't had the runtime exception removed. Likewise the FSF GCC RTS. So

Nope. The FSF GCC has the LE in the COPYING.RUNTIME file.

> *as far as the licensing is concerned* an FSF user is in the same
> position as a supported user; but supported users get support!
> 
> The only reason that the GPL and the runtime exception are involved at
> all is because the RTS is released under those terms. If I write my own
> (clean-room) runtime under say the MIT license then the fact that a
> developer uses the GCC compiler (or GNAT-LLVM) has no effect on how they
> propagate the product; and since the GPL and the runtime exception aren't
> involved in the first place, using LLVM IR can't make any difference. 
> 

Again, you're missing the whole point of this thread, it's the IR not
the runtime, that's the issue.