Re: Ravenscar-compliant bounded buffer

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <dJIEi.79067$ax1.39061@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, anon@anon.org (anon) writes:
> That may be true for VMS but since the information that was certified 
> by the DOD said C for Ada. And that the final word, because the DOD 
> certified it was so.

If there were a DoD document saying it was a box of magic pixies,
would you believe that ?

> Plus, VMS was "close source" only back then.

The status of VMS has not changed in that regard, except that those
who pay for the source listings now get them on CDROM, not Microfiche.

> There is now a port called 
> OpenVMS.

There was no "port" of VMS called OpenVMS.  OpenVMS is a marketing
term introduced about 1992 which was not indicative of any new coding
(except for changing the default banner displayed when you log in).

> As for the VMS version of Ada RTL written in Bliss, that 
> also proves my point of no "Ada only Run-Time System".

If by "no Ada only Run-Time system" you mean "no Run-Time system
written in Ada", you use a poor choice of word.

> An Alpha with GEM, well the Alpha was created in 1992. Not at the 
> birth of Ada. But again GEM means no "Ada only Run-Time System".

GEM is a code generator, not a run time library:

Directory SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]

ADARTL.EXE;1
DEC$BASRTL.EXE;1
DEC$COBRTL.EXE;1
DEC$FORRTL.EXE;2   
PAS$RTL.EXE;1


Total of 5 files.