Hello everybody,

this is my first time sending anything to GCC. If there is anything
wrong with the message, please, point it out.

TLDR;
Ada (one of the supported languages by GCC) has not appeared in the
changes page since GCC 8, and even then and before it, its presence was
minimal. I would like to update the changelog to include its mayor
changes. What is the recommended procedure and how far could it be taken
(such as updating changes in older versions)?

Ada has seen tremendous amount of work in the past few years, but that
has not been reflected on the changes.html [1] since GCC 8. I would like
to update the changes.html to better reflect the state of Ada's
development, specially since a lot of work has been done on Ada 202X
(which will most likely become 2022). There have been some mayor changes
too, such as the deprecation of ASIS support since GCC 11.

So, my question is, can I just send a patch (to the patches ML) of the
changes.html page to update Ada's non-existent entry? And could this be
done for older versions which have already been released, such as GCC
11, 10 and 9? If older releases' changes.html cannot be updated to
reflect the changes that took place on them, could those changes be
included for GCC 12?

I am aware that it is recommended that whoever submits patches, should
have signed the legal prerequisites. But since this patch would not
contain any significant changes (just listing what has already been
done), I suppose that there should be no problem on me submitting it
directly.

Thank you,


[1] GCC's 11 changes page for reference
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-11/changes.html

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Fernando Oleo Blanco
https://irvise.xyz

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