GNU Developer Collection [LSARC/2008/776 FastTrack timeout 01/07/2009]

[Nicolas Williams]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 12:11:48PM -0800, George Vasick wrote:
> Nicolas Williams wrote:
> >On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 08:24:13AM -0800, George Vasick wrote:
> >>There is testing and potentially support.
> >
> >Support means the same thing for GCJ and GNAT as for GCC: we'll keep the
> >thing up to date as new versions come out.  Support need not mean "we'll
> >fix any bugs in GCJ and/or GNAT before the GCC community does."
> >
> >If it builds and passes its own tests (this shouldn't take long to
> >verify, and we have an attestation that it does) then including it costs
> >*nothing* on the margin.
> 
> I guess I disagree with this.  It costs nothing right up to the point 
> where you are the one doing it and you run into a problem.

But you haven't even tried!

> >Are you actually improving GCC performance on Solaris by modifying GCC?
> 
> Yes, by hooking up the GCC frontends with the Studio Sparc backends. 
> The plain GCC backend will be available under flag control.

Fine.  That shouldn't interfere with GCJ/GNAT, as long as you test using
the GCC backend.

> >If so, are you saying that this makes it harder to ensure that GCJ and
> >GNAT function properly?  I could see that.
> 
> Potentially yes, although we could choose to support the plain gcc 
> backend only for these languages.  We currently do this for Fortran.

Right.