Re: Ada gcc compiler for ia64-hp-openvms

2017-05-16 Thread Florian Weimer
On 05/15/2017 10:01 PM, David Edelsohn wrote: Your understanding is correct. GCC never accepts patches for a specific version / release -- even if it is the current release. Patches for new features or support must be contributed to the current development version. Can't the patches be put on

Re: Ada gcc compiler for ia64-hp-openvms <<< perhaps second, there are been mailing isuse

2017-05-16 Thread gérard Calliet
Hello, Actually, this port is a survival initiative. I was part of a VMS port from Alpha to Itanium, which was finally launched... the month Adacore decided to stop its support. I had long negociations with Quentin Ochem in France, hoping to get the Adacore compiler even without support, and

Re: Ada gcc compiler for ia64-hp-openvms

2017-05-16 Thread Arnaud Charlet
Also I forgot to mention: I would recommend putting your GCC 4.7 based port on e.g. github so that other people can benefit from it, since putting this code base in gcc.gnu.org isn't on the table as per David's emails. I think that would be the best compromise. Arno

Re: Ada gcc compiler for ia64-hp-openvms

2017-05-16 Thread Arnaud Charlet
> Ideally, you should create a general copyright assignment to GCC -- a > "futures" assignment of all patches for GCC. you can select which > patches to contribute. > > If you insist on limiting it, you can specify files. But that always > runs into the potential problem of files that were omitt

Re: Ada gcc compiler for ia64-hp-openvms

2017-05-15 Thread David Edelsohn
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 12:54 PM, David SAUVAGE - AdaLabs Ltd wrote: > On 04/29/2017 06:31 PM, David SAUVAGE - AdaLabs Ltd wrote: >> On 04/28/2017 06:47 PM, David Edelsohn wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:55 AM, David SAUVAGE - AdaLabs Ltd >>> wrote: Dear GCC Steering Committee, >>

Re: Ada gcc compiler for ia64-hp-openvms

2017-05-15 Thread David SAUVAGE - AdaLabs Ltd
On 04/29/2017 06:31 PM, David SAUVAGE - AdaLabs Ltd wrote: > On 04/28/2017 06:47 PM, David Edelsohn wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:55 AM, David SAUVAGE - AdaLabs Ltd >> wrote: >>> Dear GCC Steering Committee, >>> >>> I am David, founder of AdaLabs Ltd, a software engineering startup >>> havi

Re: Ada gcc compiler for ia64-hp-openvms

2017-04-29 Thread David SAUVAGE - AdaLabs Ltd
On 04/28/2017 06:47 PM, David Edelsohn wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:55 AM, David SAUVAGE - AdaLabs Ltd > wrote: >> Dear GCC Steering Committee, >> >> I am David, founder of AdaLabs Ltd, a software engineering startup >> having expertise in Ada programming language technologies. As a summary

Re: Ada gcc compiler for ia64-hp-openvms

2017-04-28 Thread David Edelsohn
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:55 AM, David SAUVAGE - AdaLabs Ltd wrote: > > Dear GCC Steering Committee, > > I am David, founder of AdaLabs Ltd, a software engineering startup > having expertise in Ada programming language technologies. As a summary, > we would like to know if gcc has interest in an

Ada gcc compiler for ia64-hp-openvms

2017-04-27 Thread David SAUVAGE - AdaLabs Ltd
Dear GCC Steering Committee, I am David, founder of AdaLabs Ltd, a software engineering startup having expertise in Ada programming language technologies. As a summary, we would like to know if gcc has interest in an assignment of copyright to FSF from our work. We are not used to this process, a