ACT announces first 100% validations of Ada 95 compilers

[dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES THE FIRST 100% ADA 95 VALIDATIONS

Ada Core Technologies is pleased to announce that we have received
formal notification from NIST that our recent Ada 95 validations
under ACVC 2.0.1 have been officially registered. These validations
apply to:

   GNAT 4.00 SPARCstation 5 under Solaris 2.5.1
   GNAT 4.00 SGI Power Indigo2 under IRIX 6.2
   GNAT 4.00 SGI O2 under IRIX 6.3

These are the first validations from any vendor that cover 100% of
applicable tests in not only the core language, but also in all the
special annexes. The total number of unsupported tests is zero in
all categories. GNAT is the only Ada 95 technology that fully supports
all aspects of the Ada 95 language as defined in the international
standard. 

It is of particular note that GNAT fully supports the information
systems annex of the standard, and is the only Ada 95 compiler available
which does so. The Information Systems Annex provides COBOL-like facilities
for use in financial applications and means that GNAT is an attractive
technology for reengineering of legacy applications in COBOL.

GNAT is also the only Ada 95 capability that supports the Distributed
Systems Annex of the Ada 95 standard. For the first time, this provides
distribution capability integrated into a general-purpose language,
making Ada 95, as implemented by GNAT, an attractive candidate for
generating distributed applications, including client-server systems.

GNAT is used by a large community of Ada 95 programmers throughout
the world, and has been used for major Ada 95 applications in both
commercial and government applications.

Ada Core Technologies can offer high-quality support for these and
many other versions of GNAT. For information on obtaining these
validated compilers, please contact Ada Core Technologies.

  Ada Core Technologies
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