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Date:      Sat, 1 Jan 2011 12:41:25 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        John Marino <freebsdml@marino.st>
Cc:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AMD64 version of GNAT Ada compiler broken due to libthr
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.1101011229240.20391@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <4D1EE410.8000102@marino.st>
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On Sat, 1 Jan 2011, John Marino wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
> First, thanks for the offer.  I might come back to you on that.
> Secondly, I should have mentioned that the majority of my patches are GNAT 
> specific, and very few are like this one which might apply to all FreeBSD/GCC 
> users.

Well, it doesn't matter if they are GNAT or GCC specific,
I believe you need FSF paperwork on file for either of them
to be upstreamed.  There really isn't much of a difference
between the GPL version of GNAT (from AdaCore) or the GCC
GNAT - the GPL version is released from some stable GCC
version.  AdaCore eventually upstreams all of their changes
into GCC.

If you notice, the FreeBSD port of GNAT-GPL no longer
has any run time files as local patches because they
have been upstreamed.  There are only small patches to
change the binary names (e.g., gcc -> gnatgcc) or
other minor configuration changes.

Anyway, it would be really nice to upstream your changes,
to make the ports simpler, and so that GNAT-GPL will
also eventually inherit AMD64 support.

But regardless, thank you for your work!

-- 
DE



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