Re: will ada always be supported by gcc?

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

In article 
<dbdd7b64-d7d6-4255-8baf-1c0af85bf2ad@t38g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
 leo.brewin@internode.on.net wrote:

> 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?

Another hedge is to emulate a (possibly better) supported platform. I 
use VirtualBox <https://www.virtualbox.org/>.

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John B. Matthews
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