From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,57fdbb6924278d19 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.germany.com!newsfeed.utanet.at!newsfeed01.chello.at!newsfeed02.chello.at!news.hispeed.ch.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-Id: <1729497.DdodNlreAl@linux1.krischik.com> From: Martin Krischik Subject: Re: Full-featured free Ada 95/2005 compiler? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:18:42 +0200 References: <1184365202.780293.209020@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@hispeed.ch Organization: hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.73.230.248 (84.73.230.248) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:00:08 +0200 X-Trace: 0fca046989098f1ec435d21320 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16474 Date: 2007-07-14T10:18:42+02:00 List-Id: interpretarian wrote: > Is it ever going to be possible to have all the language features of > Ada 95/2005 (including the Systems, Real-Time and Security annexes) > available in a free compiler, or will one have to pay money to be able > to do everything? It looks like the Security and Real-Time annexes are > always going to be proprietary. Any thoughts? You are aware that the Real-Time-Annex will only work on a real time OS. Well there is some work done on GNAT to support a subset of the Real-Time-Annex on Linux - but it is only a sub-set because some features just need OS support. Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com