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,c664b94ca589f80f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 88.191.65.235 Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!nntpfeed.proxad.net!news.side3.eu!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!demorgan.zen.co.uk!peernews.mcc.ac.uk!news.xenopsyche.net!news.mcc.ac.uk!clerew!chl From: "Charles Lindsey" Subject: Re: Free Ada83 compiler for older Solaris/SPARC or IRIX? Message-ID: X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.2 (NOV) References: <47BC8252.84C89825@baigar.de> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:23:06 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19964 Date: 2008-02-21T19:23:06+00:00 List-Id: In <47BC8252.84C89825@baigar.de> Erik Baigar 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. -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Fax: +44 161 436 6133 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5