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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Free Ada83 compiler for older Solaris/SPARC or IRIX?
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:03:48 -0600
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"Erik Baigar" <erik@baigar.de> wrote in message
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> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
...
> > I don't know of such a thing in Ada 83.
> Yes sorry, this is my fault. The piece of Ada code, I want
> to use was originally compiled using Meridian Ada which
> had a binding for VGA graphics supporting line drawing
> commands and so on.

Word of warning: the Meridian compiler was notoriously bad at enforcing the
rules of the Ada language. It was not unusual for a program compiled with it
to have major issues when it was ported to another Ada compiler. (We used to
have many support calls about that, which required me to explain to people
that things like
    for I in (1..10) loop
is not legal Ada syntax.)

                                            Randy.