Re: Compiling AFLEX 1.4a with Dec Ada 83 3.5-20 on Open VMS 7.1

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

What exactly do you mean by "extensions for Ada 95"? I used GNAT on an
Alpha/VMS platform & it supported the full Ada95 language. It had some
pragmas that were not in the standard that were put there to support old
DEC-Ada83 pragmas. (BTW: Perfectly legal, just in case someone wants to
start The Great DEC/Ada/Nonstandard/Failure Debate again. :-) There was
probably some support for DEC/Ada supplied packages that weren't in the
standard (Starlet comes to mind), but I never had to use that, so I don't
know for sure. (Again, a perfectly legal and reasonable thing to do.)
Most/all of that was done for compatibility with the Ada83 DEC compiler &
beyond that I don't know of any "extensions".

I think the original issue was one of trying to take some Ada95 code and
cobble it backwards to run on the DEC Ada83 compiler. Upgrading to Ada95
would likely solve the problems. I doubt there would be much need to get any
extensions made to the compiler to do that.

MDC
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"Charlie McCutcheon" <charlie.mccutcheon@NOSPAMcompaq.com> wrote in message
news:3AF000FC.2E00D5F0@NOSPAMcompaq.com...

> Compaq Ada only has limited extensions for Ada 95.  I don't expect this to
> change to help you any...
>