On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Arnaud Charlet <char...@adacore.com> wrote: >> Arno, do you have objections to me applying the attached patch to the 4.5 >> branch? It makes it possible to build (and bootstrap) the Ada compiler on >> the >> 4.5 branch (oldest supported branch) with the 4.6 compiler, which is now the >> system compiler in recent Linux distributions. > > Well, we don't guarantee such compatibility in general, > so I'd like to make it clear that people shouldn't expect this combination > to work, and if more complex patches are submitted, we'll likely NOT > integrate them.
Maybe you should start to do that though. Otherwise you'll simply lose the easy (but not required) testing of Ada when I (or others) backport changes to still maintained branches on machines where the system Ada compiler is newer than the oldest maintained branch. So - it's all for your own benefit ;) [you can think of using a new -we-are-building-gcc switch for the compile where you'd enable some backward compatibility or so] Thanks, Richard.
