From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!Lx7EM+81f32E0bqku+QpCA.user.46.165.242.75.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Luke A. Guest" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to challenge a GCC patch? Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 09:28:44 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="48680"; posting-host="Lx7EM+81f32E0bqku+QpCA.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 Content-Language: en-GB X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62891 List-Id: On 30/09/2021 09:16, J-P. Rosen wrote: > Le 30/09/2021 à 09:53, Luke A. Guest a écrit : >> >> On 30/09/2021 07:23, J-P. Rosen wrote: >> >>>> Freely available iso asis spec would help here. >>> Actually, it is. Apart from ISO verbiage, all the interesting parts >>> of the ASIS standard is put as comments in the corresponding ASIS >>> packages. >>> >>> Moreover, AdaCore kept this good habit for all the newly introduced >>> features that support up to Ada 2012, which would make retrofitting >>> them into an updated ASIS standard quite easy. >>> >> >> Are they GPL'd and where are they? > > You can find them in the specifications of the various packages, with > sentinels (as indicated in my previous message). Another excerpt: > > --  Suggestions related to changing this specification to accept new Ada > --  features as defined in incoming revision of the Ada Standard (ISO 8652) > --  are marked by following comment sentinels: > -- > --  --|A2005 start > --   ... the suggestion goes here ... > --  --|A2005 end > -- > --  and the discussion items are marked by the comment sentinels of teh > form: > -- > --  --|D2005 start > --   ... the discussion item goes here ... > --  --|D2005 end > > (and the same goes for 2012). > I wanted to know where they are. I once found the entire directory of asis specs from the iso doc, I think I have them somewhere still. Where are the updated ones for post 95? There should be archive or directory with them with no restrictive licensing comments.