Re: Switching to a more recent compiler.

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Thursday, March 29, 2012 3:12:20 PM UTC-7, austin...@hotmail.com wrote:
> I am in my late seventies and I have spent a lot of time and effort promoting Ada through some cryptography I have invented that is a world first in “Theoretically Unbreakable” ciphers.
> 
> I have used a gnat311.p compiler for all of this that came with the textbook I used to teach myself Ada-95.
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> What I need to know from some young blood in the know is this, “will my stuff run straight off in a revised compiler like say Ada-2005 without some editing.
> 
> I want to be able to tell other users whether it does or not.
> 
> An obvious answer might be “suck it and see” – I’m a bit knackered however and I can’t get around easily these days so if some kind person who knows the answer straight off could tell me then I would be very grateful.
> 
> - adacrypt

Actually, if you go to the Annotated Ada Reference Manual I linked to earlier, and go to the Index, and look for "Incompatibilities with Ada 95" and "Inconsistencies with Ada 95", that will point you to all the sections that describe them.

But here's a list, in case it helps.  I extracted this before I was aware that it was already in the Index.

Sections that list inconsistencies:
3.3.1, 3.5.2, 3.6.3, 3.9, 3.10, 4.8, 4.9, 9.6, 11.4.1, 13.13.2, 13.14,
18.1, A.4.4, A.12.1, B.3.1

Sections that list incompatibilities:
2.9, 3.7.1, 3.9, 3.9.2, 3.10, 3.10.1, 3.10.2, 4.3, 4.3.2, 4.5.5, 4.6,
4.8, 5.2, 6.5, 8.3, 8.5.1, 8.6, 9.7.2, 10.1.2, 10.2.1, 11.4.1, 13.5.1,
13.5.2, 13.11, 13.14, 18.1, A.4.1, A.4.3, A.4.4, A.4.5, A.4.7, A.5.2,
A.8.1, A.8.4, A.10.1, A.10.7, A.12.1, B.1, C.3.1, D.7, D.8, E.2.2,
E.2.3, E.5

                   -- Adam