Nicolas Williams writes:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 05:16:28PM -0800, George Vasick wrote:
> > You bring up an interesting point. The whole discussion around adding
> > GNU Java and GNU Ada seems more like a business discussion to me. The
> > issues are time and resources to do the extra work versus the benefit.
> > Should it be handled as part of the ARC case or should it be handled
> > elsewhere?
>
> Let's ask a more basic question: does the GCJ and GNAT stuff build and
> pass the bundled tests? If so, can you just include it instead of
> arguing about it? If it doesn't build or pass its tests, then I think
> you have a case for not including it.
It does: as I've stated before, I regularly bootstrap GCC with all default
languages + ada included, and both languages pass their testsuites with a
few failures only. It may be necessary to extend the Sun-local patches to
properly set RUNPATH to those two languages (CodeSourcery already did this
when porting GCC 3.4.3 for Solaris 10), although I think GNAT already
handles this properly by default.
So it can be done reasonably easy and brings us feature partity with other
operating systems (Linux, *BSD, Windows, ...), which should be a strong
argument in favor.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University
