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Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

>> The thing is I don't know much about Open Solaris either. i was just
>> wondering if you guys had any opinions about the OS in general and
>> if there is any interest in running Ada on it.
>
> I believe Solaris/SPARC was one of the primary GNAT platforms in the
> 90s.  You probably can still buy support from AdaCore for it, but
> publicly available source code will not be well-tested.

... no more and no less well than FSF GCC on any platform.

AdaCore support Solaris on SPARC and x86[1].

You can get GCC 4.7.0 built[2] for Solaris 11 (x86)[3].

[1] http://www.adacore.com/gnatpro/platforms/
[2] http://forward-in-code.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/building-gcc-with-ada-on-solaris-x86.html
[3] http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuada/files/GNAT_GCC%20Solaris%2011%20i386%2C%20amd64/