Re: Digital and Ada ?

[l107353@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com (Garlington KE)]

Richard Kenner (kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu) wrote:
: Actually, GNAT should run just fine under VAX/VMS, since there's a
: well-maintained GCC on VAX/VMS.

: It's Alpha/VMS where there is currently no Ada 95 solution, nor a
: definite plan to make one.

If I understand Robert Dewar's correspondence, it could actually run
on both VAX/VMS and Alpha/VMS, just that the Alpha would have to run
slower that it could since it would be emulating the VAX instruction set.
However, I also got the impression that porting to VMS would not be
quite as easy as Unix, although it could be done.

Nonetheless, there is no GNAT for any VMS, and no one appears to have
announced definite plans to build one. Therefore, I think my original
statement is still correct - Today, if you want Ada 9X on VMS, you are
S.O.L. (sadly out of luck).

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