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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,77d4a86fa05b2ae0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!news-east.rr.com!news-feed-01.rdc-kc.rr.com!news.rr.com!cyclone2.kc.rr.com!news2.kc.rr.com!tornado.socal.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is Ada on VAX/VMS Ada 95 References: <1151342831.094972.295360@y41g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> From: Keith Thompson Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eHFI76/Erdlgp51/7olUq1GUgfM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:12:35 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.13.45 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: tornado.socal.rr.com 1151374355 66.75.13.45 (Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:12:35 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:12:35 PDT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5049 Date: 2006-06-27T02:12:35+00:00 List-Id: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes: > In article <1151342831.094972.295360@y41g2000cwy.googlegroups.com>, > "Chris L" writes: > >> What are the differences of Vax Ada and Ada 95? > > VAX Ada conforms to the Ada 83 standard. > > One major reason why there is no Ada 95 implementation on VAX is > that Ada 95 requires IEEE floating point semantics while the VAX > hardware provides VAX floating point semantics. I don't believe that's correct. The floating-point model is intended to be flexible enough to cover any existing hardware that implements a mantissa-exponent model (IEEE, VAX, IBM, etc.). See section G.2.1. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.