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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,998480123ade4649 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.0.170 with SMTP id 10mr10291766pbf.2.1321762122417; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:08:42 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: h5ni12063pba.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: anon@att.net Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: will ada always be supported by gcc? Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:08:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: Reply-To: anon@anon.org NNTP-Posting-Host: 3a9dPnc6Rk70cWxpgdXjvA.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 2.0 Xref: news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:14469 Date: 2011-11-20T04:08:40+00:00 List-Id: Well since Adacore uses GCC backend for GNAT Ada, it should. Or at least until Ada 2020. In , leo.brewin@internode.on.net writes: >Greetings, > >I've been a long time user of Pascal and I'm worried that my compiler >of choice, gpc pascal for MacOSX, may fall over in the next release of >MacOSX. The good folks that have supported gpc Pascal over the years >are unlikely to do the job on an ongoing basis. So I need a plan B >which currently is to port my roughly 1 million lines of code to Ada. >My worry is that I might run into the same problem with Ada -- can I >be sure that Ada will continue to be part of the GCC compiler suite >for a long time? > >Many thanks, Leo