My apologies for even bringing it up. It appears we'll most likely do our own analysis.
Regards, Greg -------------------- >The enclosed unclassified technical data / software is being transmitted under License Exception "NLR" and is to be used solely by the individual / organization to whom it is addressed. Diversion contrary to U.S. Export Administration Regulations is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Dewar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 10:27 AM To: David Daney Cc: Michael Eager; Lacefield, Greg (CNS COE); gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: FW: How does GCC implement dynamic binding? David Daney wrote: > Perhaps you are right, but it would not surprise me if there were > commercial entities based around FOSS that would provide that type of > support. Certainly for instance AdaCore is able to provide this kind of certification for its customers using its commercial version of GNAT Pro (an Ada compiler based on GNAT Pro), and perhaps for example Code Sourcery might be able to provide similar certification for a product that they provide, but if you are looking for certification of some publicly available version, I think you are out of luck. It reminds me of a time in 1999, when someone demanded that we provide Y2K compliance guarantees for the public version of GNAT. Of course I declined (for one thing I had no way of knowing exactly what he was using). He was outraged, and said "well in that case I will have to stop using this version". I explained that this was indeed the case, and offered the possibility of using the commerical version supported by us, but that's not he wanted to hear, he wanted to use the freely available public version (which is fine if it meets someones needs), but wanted someone to guarantee compliance (which is not fine).
