Jeff,

> So just to be clear, once installed, for Ada we'll start using the
> descriptor based scheme on the subset of targets below, which will
> be an ABI change, right?

Right.

> If so and this goes in, we'll have to make sure to signal loud and
> wide about the ABI change at the project level and the various
> distributors will need to do the same for their consumers as well.

Not really, there is not and never has been a stable ABI for Ada, so this
isn't new. In other words, it's already impossible to mix Ada objects compiled
with two different versions of GCC, so there is nothing "loud and wide"
needed here as far as Ada is concerned.

Arno

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