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Date:      Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:24:06 -0500
From:      linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
To:        obrien@freebsd.org, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Subject:   Re: [current tinderbox] failure on ...all...
Message-ID:  <20050612042406.GB5996@soaustin.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050612022105.GB67746@dragon.NUXI.org>
References:  <20050609234619.AD1F67306E@freebsd-current.sentex.ca> <p0621025fbeceac0673f8@128.113.24.47> <84dead720506091950779d1661@mail.gmail.com> <86oeae3d8f.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050610071828.GB78035@ip.net.ua> <867jh23bwh.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050610074706.GE78035@ip.net.ua> <20050612022105.GB67746@dragon.NUXI.org>

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> I tried.  But Kris refused to consider the following for committing.
> The problem is something like 3 ports will not build with
> "-fno-strict-aliasing".  Those are the gcc28, gnat[*] ports.
> 
> [*] I really don't understand why we have a GCC 2.8 based Ada compiler
> when Ada has been a native part of GCC since version 3.1...

If these ports are useless, why don't we mark them DEPRECATED and
after a decent interval, get rid of them?

In this day and age, anyone who's on gcc27 or gcc28 is hopelessly
behind anyways.  I can't imagine that with the long-established
track record of gcc295 there is any reason to keep them.

mcl



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