Re: GNAT and related packages
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant) writes:
>
>>> This is not correct. The Debian version hasn't passed *any*
>>> validation tests.
>>
>> I don't get it. The debian package is built from the ACT
>> source.
>
> Yes, but it links against a different libc version. This *can* make a
> difference, especially in tasking. The bootstrapping process can
> introduce additional errors, too.
Sure. But the source was at least very well tested. This is
all we can guarantee.
> In addition, there were known bugs in the pthreads-based tasking
> support which prevents successful conpletation of all ACATS tests.
> AFAIK, these problems remain in 3.14p, and only the run-time library
> based FSU Threads was ever validated.
Ah OK.
>>> The latest FSF release (and the most stable one, I believe, both GCC
>>> 3.1 and 3.1.1 are very similar to it) is GCC 3.2.
>>
>> The most stable one? There are many annoying bugs IIRC.
>
> There aren't any other FSF releases (besides 3.1 and 3.1.1), so it is
> the most stable one. ;-)
The problem is that ACT people have never really told about what
they plan for the FSF release.
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Jérôme Marant
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