From: Neil O'Brien <obrien@east.thomsoft.com>
Subject: RE: Ada News Brief
Date: 1996/10/29
Date: 1996-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01bbc5a2.d8e85820$fc899dc0@fielding.east.aonix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.846422650@merv
On Sunday, October 27, 1996, Robert Dewar wrote...
[SNIP]
>
> Well I am not sure this is in your favor. I think it is important to
educate
> people away from the expectation that an Ada 83 switch will work
perfectly
> on their Ada 83 code. There are two reasons.
>
> 1. The switch from an Ada 83 to an Ada 95 compiler may involve changes
in
> implementatoin dependent choices (e.g. the behavior of representation
> pragmas). This is especially likely to be so if you are switching
> front ends (VADS to GNAT, or DEC to Rational, or Alsys to TSP).
>
Just to clarify, Alsys and TSP are one and the same, we may have 3
front-ends associated with different technologies (RISCAda, AdaWorld and
ObjectAda) but
the front-ends did not change because of a company name change.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-04 0:00 Ada News Brief Reuse News
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1996-10-14 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Software Engineering News
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-26 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-10-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Neil O'Brien [this message]
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Sandy McPherson
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Steve Jones - JON
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Sandy McPherson
1996-10-18 0:00 ` David Emery
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1996-09-20 0:00 Becca Norton
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