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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9960fa51a4a478af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-03 06:11:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ACT announces availability of GNAT 3.14p Date: 3 Feb 2002 06:11:58 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0202030611.1df3899a@posting.google.com> References: <5ee5b646.0201301849.4e951bcb@posting.google.com> <3C5CEFCE.D41ABFFF@eliminatespam.notes.udayton.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.244 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1012745519 27666 127.0.0.1 (3 Feb 2002 14:11:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Feb 2002 14:11:59 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19560 Date: 2002-02-03T14:11:59+00:00 List-Id: Leon Winslow wrote in message news:<3C5CEFCE.D41ABFFF@eliminatespam.notes.udayton.edu>... > I can understand the reason for limiting ACTs work to > Windows NT ... A compiler that works "reasonably well" > in W98, XP or Me is never going to be used on those > platforms for any serious work. > > Lee Winslow Lee is seriously confused here, ACT's work is of course not limited to these platforms. Since others may possibly share the same confusion, I should perhaps clarify. For serious work using Ada 95, ACT provides a commercial implementation of Ada 95, GNAT Pro, on a very wide range of platforms including the following (list not complete) Native Platforms: Windows 2000 Windows NT Windows XP Interix Solaris Solaris-x86 AIX Tru64 (formerly Dec Unix) SGI Irix SCO Unix JVM (JGNAT) OpenVMS HPUX GNU-Linux (Redhat Linux and other versions) Cross-Platforms x86 Lynx Power PC Lynx 68k VxWorks Ultrasparc VxWorks PPC VxWorks PPC VxWorks AE Bare board AAMP (the above with various hosts, including Solars, NT) (the VxWorks based products are available directly from Wind River Systems under their WinDirect program) High Integrity GNAT HI-E (no run time) GNAT HI-E (Ravenscar profile) VxWorks-Cert The above list is not complete, but if you are interested in doing serious work in Ada 95 on any of these systems, or on systems not listed here, consult Ada Core Technologies directly for information (sales@gnat.com) including information on how to arrange for free evaluation systems, including full support. We shortly expect to announce GNAT Pro version 3.15, which contains many new features, including a greatly extended capability for project management, and we will also announce a completely new powerful integrated development environment based on GTKAda technology. The public versions are not intended at all for serious work, so we not only agree with Lee here, but we very much discourage the use of the public version of GNAT for serious mission critical work, since for one thing we discourage the use of unsupported software in such environments. They are intended for student and hobbyist use and we provide the most commonly used ports for this purpose. We also of course provide the sources, so we expect to see other versions of GNAT built (in the past volunteers have built ports for DOS, BSD Unix, Atari, NEXT, and all sorts of other machines), and indeed you see threads starting here already on building for Solaris x86, and AIX. For those interested in working with the GNU project for generating interesting new Free Software, we would recommend that you get involved with the development of GNAT version 5 which is now part of the GCC project. This version of GNAT works with GCC 3.x and snapshots are available at gnu.org. Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies