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Re:The Heartbleed Bug by oneeyed on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @04:08PM (#7561991)
This is wrong: the compilers distributed by the FSF (as part of GCC) have the linking exception. The ones distributed by AdaCore don't: they exercise their right to transform the modified GPL (with exception) into the GPL before redistribution. But the one in your Linux distribution is likely the FSF one.
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Re:The Heartbleed Bug by jnbiche on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @06:31PM (#7562949)
No, it's absolutely correct. He wrote that the latest compiler doesn't have a linking exception, which is correct. The FSF compiler generally lags at least a year or two behind the AdaCore one.

For example, it has only just gotten (partial) Ada 2012 features, a full 3-4 years after the AdaCore GPL compiler.

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