Re: gcc-gnat for Linux/MIPS-32bit-be, and HPPA2

2018-07-21 Thread Carlo Pisani
hi guys got some deb files from an old Debian's archive(1), converted .deb into .tgz, and installed but it seems there is no gnat-gcc I don't know how Gnat works on Debian, but for sure it doesn't work like the version I have on my gentoo-x86 box where I have prepared this test file, hello.adb wi

Re: Detecting superfluous "else"

2018-07-21 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 19/07/2018 à 10:49, U.Mutlu a écrit : Hi, it makes me 'crazy' when I see such if-else constructs:   if (x)     return 7;   else     return 4; (Of course in this case one better would use the shorthand "return x ? 7 : 4;", but that's not the issue here) The 'else' is obviously superfluous/r

Re: That light at the end of the tunnel?

2018-07-21 Thread David Edelsohn
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 7:32 AM Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 11:13:16PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote: > > Have you considered bisecting your recent changes to reposurgeon to > > determine which one caused the errors in the conversion of GCC Trunk > > and then trying to reason

Re: Detecting superfluous "else"

2018-07-21 Thread Daniel Letai
On 19/07/2018 18:56, Eric Gallager wrote: On 7/19/18, U.Mutlu wrote: Hi, it makes me 'crazy' when I see such if-else constructs: if (x) return 7; else return 4; (Of course in this case one better would use the shorthand "return x ? 7 : 4;", but that's not the issue here)

Re: That light at the end of the tunnel?

2018-07-21 Thread Eric S. Raymond
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 09:26:10AM +0200, Richard Biener wrote: > Can you summarize what is wrong with our current git mirror which was IIRC > created by git-svn importing? git-svn tends to do subtle danage damage to the back history. See my PSA at http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6778 Partial quote:

Re: That light at the end of the tunnel?

2018-07-21 Thread Richard Biener
On July 21, 2018 4:04:51 AM GMT+02:00, e...@thyrsus.com wrote: >That light at the end of the tunnel turned out to be an oncoming train. > >Until recently I thought the conversion was near finished. I'd had >verified clean conversions across trunk and all branches, except for >one screwed-up branch