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From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Ada 95 for SCO?
Date: 1998/09/06
Date: 1998-09-06T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6sutco$jiu$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1fVLj9G29GA.166@samson.airnet.net

In article <1fVLj9G29GA.166@samson.airnet.net>,
  "David C. Hoos, Sr" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote:
>
> Terry Devine wrote in message <35F07349.EE7@mitre.org>...
> >Is anyone aware of an Ada 95 compiler (preferably with a full set of
> >tools) for SCO?
> >
> Let me tell you my solution to the problem of the lack of SCO support from
> the Ada community.  There is a surprisingly high proportion of POS machines
> that run SCO, but I guess not too may people are doing that sort of work in
> Ada.
>
> I found that I could execute executables built on Linux (Red Hat 5.0) on SCO
> 5.0.2 with the aid of a Linux emulator which maps Linux system calls to SCO
> system calls.
>
> I don't have the information in presentable form at the moment, but if there
> is interest, I can gather the stuff up in the next couple of days and put it
> on my FTP site.
>
> David C. Hoos, Sr.
>
>


It certainly would not be very difficult to target GNAT to
SCO, and indeed we did create a SCO port to a very early
version of GNAT. However, we have had no significant customer
interest in such a port so far.

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies

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  reply	other threads:[~1998-09-06  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-09-04  0:00 Ada 95 for SCO? Terry Devine
1998-09-04  0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr
1998-09-06  0:00   ` dewarr [this message]
1998-09-11  0:00     ` Chris Warwick
1998-09-12  0:00       ` dewarr
1998-09-12  0:00       ` dewar
1998-09-12  0:00         ` Ronald Cole
1998-09-13  0:00           ` dewarr
1998-09-12  0:00       ` dewarr
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