Steven Bosscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi, | | A long time ago, Per added USE_MAPPED_LOCATION, but a full switch-over was | held up by (fixable) PCH issues and by Ada maintainers who expect problems | for GNAT if USE_MAPPED_LOCATION becomes the default. | | The latest discussions I could find about this concluded that it should | work for Ada too (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-10/msg00251.html). But | when Per posted a patch to make it work, it was rejected anyway by GNAT | maintainers because "we do not want to create a strong dependency between | the Ada front-end and one particular GCC back-end notion of linemap/source | location" (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-03/msg00924.html). | | Then, nothing happened... | | So now we have a half-completed conversion to USE_MAPPED_LOCATION which is | currently broken (doesn't bootstrap for me with --enable-mapped-locations). | | Question: should USE_MAPPED_LOCATION be taken out again now? Or is anyone | going to work on it to complete this project?
We should go complete to mapped location. If Ada maintainers feel like they don't want to play with the team, well they can stay in their corner -- they more or less have already built they own ghetto; this issue is not going to make it worse or better. -- Gaby
