> That is not an excuse for being so uncooperative as Ada maintainers > can sometimes be when it concerns middle-end changes.
That's the usual tension between backward compatibility and development. Clearly the Fortran maintainers, by starting again from scratch, and the C/C++ maintainers, by steadily ditching language extensions over the past few years, have chosen to favor the latter over the former. GNAT is probably not so biased. > Anyway, if this can be done in gigi, then let's make a plan and work > on it. I'd really like to see MAPPED_LOCATION become the default, and > Ada is basically the major blocker right now, so we need to agree on > something instead of arguing... ;-) Agreed. :-) -- Eric Botcazou
