Re: GCC considering enabling Ada by default
* Ludovic Brenta:
>> There's no gnatg++, and GCC is now mostly compiled as C++ (but not
>> exclusively). Mixing different C and C++ compiler versions is
>> probably not supported upstream.
>
> Yes it is because the ABI has not changed. Thus it is perfectly
> possible to link object files produced by gnat-4.6, gcc-4.7 and g++-4.7
> to form a working executable that can compile Ada sources.
GCC might have a feature check for the C++ compiler (say, a particular
built-in) and automatically assumes that it's present in the C
compiler as well.
> Bottom line: there is no problem to worry about.
Okay, thanks for your assessment.
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