Re: EGCS-970929 and GNAT-3.10p?

[Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>]

Me:

> [ I did play with the thought to build GNAT in combination with g77  
> before the EGCS project emerged, simply to get a better grip on the  
> regressions g77's backend patches might generate and because people  
> were asking us (fortran@gnu.ai.mit.edu) how to build this
> combination.  I gave up on this once I read that the GNAT test
> suite is proprietary ;-( ]

Joel:

>  A lot of the code used to test an Ada compiler is freely
>  available.  For example, the Ada Compiler Validatation
>  suite is free.  The setup and configuration of it is
>  compiler dependent and that part is proprietary.  There
>  are large bodies of performance suites like PIWG which
>  are freely available.

Took me some time to get to the information I thought I had read -  
DejaNews to the rescue !

Power Search, Old database, search string "ada test suite dewar"  
gives you:

Subject: Re: Towards a free GNU Ada

Note that this kind of regression testing is out of reach
of informal fiddling. For one thing, the great majority of
the code in the critical regression suite is proprietary,
for example it includes large chuncks of the DEC test suite,
as well as a lot of customer code, that the customer has
been willing to entrust to us only on the basis that we will
carefully protect it. It is also the case that the
configuration control that is needed requires very strong
control and management.

Straight from the horse's mouth ...

Of course I needed the regression tests for what I wanted (see above).

HTH,
Toon.