Re: HELP Need Good PC Ada Compiler

[mdisea!mothost!schbbs!news@uunet.uu.net (David Tannen)]

Try one of the following:

	Meridian/Verdix
	1-800-653-2522
	They have compilers for both MS-DOS and MS-Windows.

	Alsys Inc
	1-800-995-2579/617-270-0030
	They only have compilers for MS-DOS.

I have used both compilers.  The Meridian compiler was good for smallish projec
ts
(20-30ksloc).  I had some problems w/ generics (they worked w/ the Alsys compil
er
but not Meridian).  Meridian has a nice set of DOS interface packages that come
w/ the compiler.  Someone @ Meridian told me that the underlying technology is 
C.
That the Ada code is "translated" to C code and then compiled.  It does explain
 one
of the problems I had (see next paragraph).  But aside from that, I know a comp
any
that does a large % of its work using the Meridian compiler.

Alsys found more software errors at compile/run-time than Meridian.  One that c
omes
to mind had to do w/ access types.  I had link list with a software logic error
,
sometimes the last node would be attempting to access infinity (ie not set to a
 
value).  Alsys caught this error @ compile time.  Meridian allowed the program 
to
run, not even a run-time error.

Good luck,

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David Tannen
tannend@source.asset.com
tannen@tigger.geg.mot.com
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