Re: License compliance on updating gcc runtime libraries

2019-02-27 Thread Simon Wright
On 27 Feb 2019, at 18:37, Richard Kenner wrote: > > 1) Whether executing a program is considered making a copy under > copyright law. I had a look through some of the published judgements, and it's clear that in the US at least copying into RAM (for whatever purpose, and provided the copy has

Re: License compliance on updating gcc runtime libraries

2019-02-27 Thread Simon Wright
On 27 Feb 2019, at 12:41, Richard Kenner wrote: > > Remember that, from the perspective of copyright law, executing a program is > making a "copy" > of that program. Has that (rather extreme) view been litigated?

Re: interrupting Ada tests

2018-07-05 Thread Simon Wright
On 5 Jul 2018, at 20:08, Richard Biener wrote: > > On July 5, 2018 6:37:58 PM GMT+02:00, Martin Sebor wrote: >> Ada tests don't seem to respond to the INT signal: when >> I interrupt a parallel make check while the Ada tests are >> running, other test suites are interrupted as well and go >> awa

Re: GCC interpretation of C11 atomics (DR 459)

2018-02-27 Thread Simon Wright
On 27 Feb 2018, at 17:07, Torvald Riegel wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-02-27 at 16:40 +, Simon Wright wrote: >> On 27 Feb 2018, at 12:56, Ruslan Nikolaev via gcc wrote: >>> >>> And all this mess to accommodate almost non-existent case when someone >>>

Re: GCC interpretation of C11 atomics (DR 459)

2018-02-27 Thread Simon Wright
On 27 Feb 2018, at 12:56, Ruslan Nikolaev via gcc wrote: > > And all this mess to accommodate almost non-existent case when someone wants > to use atomic_load on read-only memory for wide types, in which no good > solution exists anyway Sorry to butt in, but - if it's ROM why would you need at

Re: timeouts/malloc failures in ada tests?

2017-07-08 Thread Simon Wright
On 7 Jul 2017, at 22:31, Martin Sebor wrote: > > I see large numbers of timeouts in Ada tests on trunk in parallel > run s (make -j96) on x86_64. Messages like the one below appear > in the logs, suggesting some sort of heap corruption. I'm having > trouble reproducing it outside the rest of th

Re: 'make check' questions

2017-05-11 Thread Simon Wright
On 11 May 2017, at 11:50, Kyrill Tkachov wrote: > On 11/05/17 11:43, Simon Wright wrote: >> I see from https://gcc.gnu.org/install/test.html that it's possible to run >> tests in parallel. I get the impression from gcc/Makefile that the check >> concerned has to be

'make check' questions

2017-05-11 Thread Simon Wright
I see from https://gcc.gnu.org/install/test.html that it's possible to run tests in parallel. I get the impression from gcc/Makefile that the check concerned has to be set up in the Makefile (in my build tree, configured with --target=x86_64-apple-darwin16 --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,o

Release criteria for Darwin

2017-04-10 Thread Simon Wright
I see that, in the GCC 7 Release Criteria, the Secondary Platforms list includes i686-apple-darwin. Should this now be x86_64-apple-darwin? I've been building this since GCC 4.5.0, Darwin 10, in 2011.

Mercurial mirror

2011-10-29 Thread Simon Wright
The Mercurial mirror at http://gcc.gnu.org/hg/gcc was last updated 11 months ago at SVN r166522. I think it can only cause confusion to have the mirror live but stale; ought it to be turned off?

Mercurial mirror

2011-10-29 Thread Simon Wright
The Mercurial mirror at http://gcc.gnu.org/hg/gcc was last updated 11 months ago at SVN r166522. I think it can only cause confusion to have the mirror live but stale; ought it to be turned off?

Broken link to documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Simon Wright
In http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/, the Current development / User- Level Documentation link to GNAT User's Guide is broken.