Re: will ada always be supported by gcc?

[Sebastian Doht <seb_doht@lycos.com>]

leo.brewin@internode.on.net schrieb:
> Greetings,
>
> I've been a long time user of Pascal and I'm worried that my compiler
> of choice, gpc pascal for MacOSX, may fall over in the next release of
> MacOSX. The good folks that have supported gpc Pascal over the years
> are unlikely to do the job on an ongoing basis. So I need a plan B
> which currently is to port my roughly 1 million lines of code to Ada.
> My worry is that I might run into the same problem with Ada -- can I
> be sure that Ada will continue to be part of the GCC compiler suite
> for a long time?
>
> Many thanks, Leo


I know it is a little bit off-topic on this group but have you 
considered using FreePascal (http://www.freepascal.org/) instead? It 
should be easier to port your GPC code and it is IMHO well supported and 
will be around for a while.

Greetz,

Sebastian