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,a0792820d2e409c6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Ed Falis" Subject: Re: Alsys Ada question Date: 2000/03/08 Message-ID: <_glx4.8055$YU2.118072@typhoon.ne.mediaone.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 594574546 References: <38C53DCC.C89AE4BF@silver.jhuapl.edu> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mediaone.net X-Trace: typhoon.ne.mediaone.net 952492218 24.218.120.235 (Wed, 08 Mar 2000 00:10:18 EST) Organization: Road Runner X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 00:10:18 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Scott Ingram" wrote in message news:38C53DCC.C89AE4BF@silver.jhuapl.edu... > I've inherited a system that was built using > "DOS Alsys Ada 4.2 for 80X86 and cross." > > In the sources, there is a "with" clause for a > package "Unsigned," which I do not recall being > a standard Ada83 package...so I am presuming that > this package was supplied by Alsys with the compiler. > Can anyone confirm or deny that supposition? > > Also, who would I contact to see if that product is > still available? 4.2 was superceded in the early 90's, so you're working with old code. The last of that line of compilers that directly supported the unsigned package (if I recall correctly) was the ActivAda cross 386, which was closely related to the 16 bit compiler for 86/186/286. That probably bit the dust in 96-97. Space Station is still using a variant of it by special contract with Aonix (last I heard) for the MDM's that were discussed in another thread. The contents of that package can be easily replaced by Unsigned_8, Unsigned_16 and Unsigned_32 in any Ada 95 compiler. The correspondence is Byte, Word and Dword from package Unsigned. You could try contacting Aonix about the compiler. As Richard suggested, Ada 95 is more likely the way to go. - Ed Falis Former product manager for Alsys X86 products.