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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6b94aab2b2294f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) Subject: Re: Ada on MVS Date: 1998/12/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 426556913 Sender: news@inmet.camb.inmet.com (USENET news) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: houdini.camb.inmet.com References: <367E71DF.64DED54F@elca.ch> Organization: Intermetrics, Inc. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-12-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- -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