From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: Ada on MVS
Date: 1998/12/28
Date: 1998-12-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F4p1zq.7wr.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 367E71DF.64DED54F@elca.ch
Pascal Sartoretti (Pascal.Sartoretti@elca.ch) wrote:
: dewar@gnat.com wrote:
: > There is currently no Ada 95 compiler for MVS. Probably the
: > easiest path would be a GNAT port, since there is a gcc
: > available for MVS, but this would not be a trivial port,
: > and in particular specialized work would be needed to get
: > the tasking and tools working.
: There seems to be in fact two possibilities for a GNAT port to OS/390
: (the new correct name today of MVS, sorry for the confusion):
: 1. A port to OS/390 itself.
: 2. A port to "OS/390 UNIX System Services" (see
: http://www2.s390.ibm.com/oe/index.html). It seems to be an Unix layer
: added on top of OS/390.
: The second solution should hopefully be easier than the first one. Which
: one would you qualify as "non trivial"?
Another possibility is to use our Ada 95 front end which has
a variant that generates optimized ANSI C as its intermediate
code, and uses the standard C run-time to implement exception
handling, tasking, and abort.
Let us know if you are interested.
: Pascal
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-Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com http://www.averstar.com/~stt/
Technical Director, Distributed IT Solutions (www.averstar.com/tools)
AverStar (formerly Intermetrics, Inc.) Burlington, MA USA
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-18 0:00 Ada on MVS Pascal Sartoretti
1998-12-19 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1998-12-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-12-21 0:00 ` Pascal Sartoretti
1998-12-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-12-28 0:00 ` Tucker Taft [this message]
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