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-Thread: 103376,9eb88bb80477ed08 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA compilers/ difference between 83 and 95 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 05:34:25 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.3.218.49 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1117863265 67.3.218.49 (Fri, 03 Jun 2005 22:34:25 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 22:34:25 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11233 Date: 2005-06-04T05:34:25+00:00 List-Id: Chris Albertson wrote: > If there is a problem where is it? What part of the language spec > changed in an incompatable way? Yes I do have some old code that > currently runs on a VAX and I'm like to get it running on a > Duel Xeon system under Solaris 10. I assumed only minor work > would be required. I think gnat has a switch to disallow > the '95 syntax. I've compiled lots of Ada-83 code with Ada-95 compilers and never had a serious problem. The important thing is that the code was designed to be portable in the first place. If you have lots of compiler or platform dependencies in your code, it becomes harder. -- Jeff Carter "Oh Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." Monty Python and the Holy Grail 24