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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,79f5c8d5de610eef X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-04 21:23:24 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!trib.apple.com!amd!netcomsv!annwfn!annwfn!merlin From: merlin@annwfn.com (Fred McCall) Subject: Re: Verdix VADS ADA or GNU ADA on an SGI... Date: Tue, 04 Oct 1994 07:35:30 -0400 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: <85C41A106D4@annwfn.com> References: <1994Sep22.143838.388@mksol.dseg.ti.com> Organization: Is For People Who Don't Have Real Work X-Newsreader: Newsy 0.23 Date: 1994-10-04T07:35:30-04:00 List-Id: In <1994Sep22.143838.388@mksol.dseg.ti.com> connor@mksol.dseg.ti.com martin connor writes: >We are in the process of selecting an ADA compiler for an SGI workstation. >The engineers want VERIX VADS, the accountants want GNU ADA (based on cost). >Has anyone used either of these on an SGI workstation? Does GNU ADA have >tools, or support? In the long run would the VERDIX ADA be a better choice? In DSEG you don't really have the option of using GNAT. If you're working on something where you have to use Ada (which is, I presume, why you're using it if your beancounters are that concerned about compiler costs) you're going to have to use a validated compiler. I also don't recall hearing that it had been ported to SGI IRIX (last I knew, GCC wouldn't build correctly, but that was a year ago so things have probably changed somewhat in that regard). If you're writing MCCR software (or probably anything that falls into deliverable software, for that matter), you have to use a validated compiler suite. You also won't be able to get any support from SGI for any problems you may have (and, using an unsupported compiler, you're going to run into lots of problems where your support for GNAT will say it's an IRIX bug and SGI will tell you that you're using an unsupported compiler so it's your problem). [Can you say 'captive market'? Even given access to free tools, it still exists as long as we have to deal with the Ada Mandate.] -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden --------------------------------------------------------------------------- merlin@annwfn.com -- I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.