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,f443c7f5e2728025 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.68.129.169 with SMTP id nx9mr8756250pbb.2.1333440108031; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:01:48 -0700 (PDT) Path: r9ni12982pbh.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Switching to a more recent compiler. Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:01:46 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <22596876.3.1333059140828.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbxo19> <5b9ada16-1174-4a73-9117-9a16e7de806a@z38g2000vbu.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="dFCm8HWntFqmDIilBLqEJQ"; logging-data="22338"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Ee8bw0JyOLIVrfyDglj6X8sCKY+f8ZKw=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ycoahx/Qh414cGsIEcv8JLBzEUc= sha1:APDmQQOMOXEsUdGHq269yNj3llI= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-04-03T09:01:46+01:00 List-Id: Gautier write-only writes: > On 30 mar, 00:12, austin.oby...@hotmail.com wrote: > >> What I need to know from some young blood in the know is this, “will >> my stuff run straight off in a revised compiler like say Ada-2005 >> without some editing. > > There is a very high probability it will, provided you don't use > identifiers that have become keywords in Ada 2005: "interface", > "overriding", "synchronized". And even then, (with GNAT), you can use the -gnat95 flag to retain the older language model. You still get warnings.