Re: POSIX and Ada?

[emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery)]

There are three current POSIX/Ada projects, along with a study group.

1.  IEEE Project P1003.5a is producing a small update to the 1992
standard, mostly to fix some defects discovered since 1992.  

2.  IEEE Project P1003.5b (was P1003.20) is producing an Ada binding
to the POSIX Real-Time extensions and to the POSIX Threads binding.
This standard is currently in ballot.  

We'll probably 'merge' both P1003.5a and P1003.5b ballots, by
producing a single document with sections noting things are in
the .5a scope and things that are in the .5b scope.

3.  Test Assertions to IEEE Std 1003.5-1992 is producing, as the title
imples, a set of tests for .5.  This work is being done by a group at
Clemson using a technology that should support the automatic
generation of a test suite for measuring .5 implementation
conformance.  This is something that we really need.  

There is a study group currently examining the possibilities of
doing an Ada (95) binding to MOTIF.  The primary issue with this work
is the non-existence of any Ada95 bindings to MOTIF to use as a
starting point.  (Generally, IEEE standards should be based on
existing practice, but this is not always the case...)

				dave emery
				(Editor, 1003.5-1992 and 
				 P1003.5 WG Vice-Chair, Interpretations)
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