Re: Changing base compiler requirement for bootstrapping GNAT

2017-01-23 Thread Tristan Gingold
> On 19 Jan 2017, at 13:33, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 01:26:32PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> On Jan 19 2017, Tristan Gingold wrote: >> >>> Is it ok to require gcc 4.9 (3 years old) or later to build GNAT ? >> >> The newest Ada compiler available for SLE11 is 4.8. >

Re: Changing base compiler requirement for bootstrapping GNAT

2017-01-19 Thread Arnaud Charlet
> > (does bootstrapping GNAT with > > a non-GNAT Ada compiler work? It really should!), > > I could work on that if you (or someone else) gives me a non-GNAT Ada compiler > for my machine :-) To be more serious: no, bootstraping GNAT with a non-GNAT Ada compiler doesn't work and isn't supported,

Re: Changing base compiler requirement for bootstrapping GNAT

2017-01-19 Thread Tristan Gingold
> On 19 Jan 2017, at 12:31, Richard Biener wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Tristan Gingold wrote: >> >>> On 19 Jan 2017, at 11:46, Richard Biener wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Tristan Gingold >>> wrote: Is it ok to require gcc 4.9 (3 years old) or later

Re: Changing base compiler requirement for bootstrapping GNAT

2017-01-19 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 09:20:31AM -0600, Joel Sherrill wrote: > On 1/19/2017 6:33 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 01:26:32PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > > On Jan 19 2017, Tristan Gingold wrote: > > > > > > > Is it ok to require gcc 4.9 (3 years old) or later to build GN

Re: Changing base compiler requirement for bootstrapping GNAT

2017-01-19 Thread Tristan Gingold
> On 19 Jan 2017, at 13:33, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 01:26:32PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> On Jan 19 2017, Tristan Gingold wrote: >> >>> Is it ok to require gcc 4.9 (3 years old) or later to build GNAT ? >> >> The newest Ada compiler available for SLE11 is 4.8. >

Re: Changing base compiler requirement for bootstrapping GNAT

2017-01-19 Thread Joel Sherrill
On 1/19/2017 6:33 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 01:26:32PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: On Jan 19 2017, Tristan Gingold wrote: Is it ok to require gcc 4.9 (3 years old) or later to build GNAT ? The newest Ada compiler available for SLE11 is 4.8. Various people still u

Re: Changing base compiler requirement for bootstrapping GNAT

2017-01-19 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 01:26:32PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Jan 19 2017, Tristan Gingold wrote: > > > Is it ok to require gcc 4.9 (3 years old) or later to build GNAT ? > > The newest Ada compiler available for SLE11 is 4.8. Various people still use 4.4 or even 4.1 as bootstrap compile

Re: Changing base compiler requirement for bootstrapping GNAT

2017-01-19 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Jan 19 2017, Tristan Gingold wrote: > Is it ok to require gcc 4.9 (3 years old) or later to build GNAT ? The newest Ada compiler available for SLE11 is 4.8. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now f

Re: Changing base compiler requirement for bootstrapping GNAT

2017-01-19 Thread Richard Biener
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Tristan Gingold wrote: > >> On 19 Jan 2017, at 11:46, Richard Biener wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Tristan Gingold >> wrote: >>> Is it ok to require gcc 4.9 (3 years old) or later to build GNAT ? >>> >>> We plan to use gcc exceptions within the

Re: Changing base compiler requirement for bootstrapping GNAT

2017-01-19 Thread Tristan Gingold
> On 19 Jan 2017, at 11:46, Richard Biener wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Tristan Gingold wrote: >> Is it ok to require gcc 4.9 (3 years old) or later to build GNAT ? >> >> We plan to use gcc exceptions within the GNAT front-end (previously we were >> using a FE specific excepti

Re: Changing base compiler requirement for bootstrapping GNAT

2017-01-19 Thread Richard Biener
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Tristan Gingold wrote: > Is it ok to require gcc 4.9 (3 years old) or later to build GNAT ? > > We plan to use gcc exceptions within the GNAT front-end (previously we were > using a FE specific exception mechanism). > This requires a matching implementation in th

Changing base compiler requirement for bootstrapping GNAT

2017-01-19 Thread Tristan Gingold
Is it ok to require gcc 4.9 (3 years old) or later to build GNAT ? We plan to use gcc exceptions within the GNAT front-end (previously we were using a FE specific exception mechanism). This requires a matching implementation in the runtime, which was last changed for gcc 4.9 Our idea is to compl