Ada 2005 Compilers

Ada 2005 Compilers

[markp]

We are currently evaluating the use of Ada 2005 functionality in our
projects. Are there any compiler manufacturers besides AdaCore's GNAT
that support Ada 2005? Further, is Ada 2005 an official standard at
this point in time?

Thank you.

Re: Ada 2005 Compilers

[Jeffrey Creem]

markp wrote:
> We are currently evaluating the use of Ada 2005 functionality in our
> projects. Are there any compiler manufacturers besides AdaCore's GNAT
> that support Ada 2005? Further, is Ada 2005 an official standard at
> this point in time?
> 
> Thank you.
> 

I think Aonix had a writeup on a recent trade magazine where they 
recently talked about starting to add support for for at least some Ada 
2005 features.

Greenhills has said that none of their customers have asked for it where 
none is defined as just me and apparently some customers in Europe. If 
people don't ask, it will not happen. So, if you are considering them as 
a vendor, I'd recommend asking and then considering all aspects of what 
the vendors offer and vote with your money and select a vendor that at 
least shows some level of commitment to the features you find important.

IBM (third hand) has indicated that some work is being done on Ada 2005 
for the Rational Ada developer tools but I have not seen anything on 
their website or trade magazines.

As far as I know the standard is still not fully official. The technical 
features have been approved. Not sure what is taking ISO so long to get 
it out the door at this point.

Re: Ada 2005 Compilers

[Ludovic Brenta]

Jeffrey Creem writes:
> As far as I know the standard is still not fully official. The
> technical features have been approved. Not sure what is taking ISO so
> long to get it out the door at this point.

Yes, it is official.  ISO published Amendment 1 on 2007-03-09:

http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=45001&ICS1=35&ICS2=60&ICS3=

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.

Re: Ada 2005 Compilers

[brian.b.mcguinness]

On May 2, 4:10 am, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBE...
>
> --
> Ludovic Brenta.

Or, if you don't want to spend a lot, you can get the basic
information at
http://www.adaic.org/standards/ada05.html

--- Brian

Re: Ada 2005 Compilers

[Georg Bauhaus]

On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 22:15 -0400, Jeffrey Creem wrote:

> Greenhills has said that none of their customers have asked for it where 
> none is defined as just me and apparently some customers in Europe.

Do you find the remarks on AdaMulti in the Wikibook informative?
Should something be added?
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Installing#AdaMulti_from_Green_Hills_Software


> As far as I know the standard is still not fully official. The technical 
> features have been approved. Not sure what is taking ISO so long to get 
> it out the door at this point.
Status:  Published standard
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=45001&ICS1=35&ICS2=60&ICS3=&scopelist=

Re: Ada 2005 Compilers

[Jeffrey Creem]

Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 22:15 -0400, Jeffrey Creem wrote:
> 
>> Greenhills has said that none of their customers have asked for it where 
>> none is defined as just me and apparently some customers in Europe.
> 
> Do you find the remarks on AdaMulti in the Wikibook informative?
> Should something be added?
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Installing#AdaMulti_from_Green_Hills_Software

Yes..Something should be added. Perhaps I'll add to it at some point.

> 
> 
>> As far as I know the standard is still not fully official. The technical 
>> features have been approved. Not sure what is taking ISO so long to get 
>> it out the door at this point.
> Status:  Published standard
> http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=45001&ICS1=35&ICS2=60&ICS3=&scopelist=
> 
> 

Thanks. I had not looked carefully since January and since nothing had 
been posted here (at least that I saw) and nothing was on AdaIC I 
assumed it was still unpublished.

Re: Ada 2005 Compilers

[brian.b.mcguinness]

On May 2, 6:12 am, Georg Bauhaus <bauh...@futureapps.de> wrote:
> Do you find the remarks on AdaMulti in the Wikibook informative?
> Should something be added?http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Installing#AdaMulti_from...

I find the Wikibook very useful, but I wish that someone would provide
examples showing how to use the standard libraries, for example
using maps in string handling.  It would probably be best to start
with those libraries that work substantially differently from their
counterparts in other languages such as C.

--- Brian

Re: Ada 2005 Compilers

[Markus E Leypold]

Jeffrey Creem <jeff@thecreems.com> writes:

> Greenhills has said that none of their customers have asked for it
> where none is defined as just me and apparently some customers in
> Europe. 


I'd have expected market research to be a bit more ... proactive.

Regards -- Markus