Re: Free Ada83 compiler for older Solaris/SPARC or IRIX?

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>]

In <47BC8252.84C89825@baigar.de> Erik Baigar <erik@baigar.de> writes:

>Hi,

>does anyone out there know/have an older Ada83 compiler 
>which runs on SPARC/Solaris (e.g. 2.6) or SGI/IRIX(6.5)
>which he is able/willing to share?

>I have a piece of Ada code I want to make run on these 
>toys. Of course I know of gnat, but dislike the task 
>of compiling gcc with gnat/ada-support on these 
>platforms. Would be great if the compiler does
>support some form of plot/draw command for graphics 
>output (AdaEd which I succesfully compiled for IRIX
>does unfortunately not).

There is the original interpreted version of Ada 83 written at New York
University, which may still be available from there. If not, I have a copy
which I still use for one application that I wrote.

OTOH, you would need to write your own interface to any graphics libraries
you might need. It is not too hard so long as you do not get
over-ambitious.

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