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: 103376,998480123ade4649 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.30.34 with SMTP id p2mr13531175pbh.4.1321817856477; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:37:36 -0800 (PST) Path: h5ni14617pba.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!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John B. Matthews" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: will ada always be supported by gcc? Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:37:34 -0500 Organization: The Wasteland Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: LQJtZWzu+iKlBROuDg+IUg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:14471 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2011-11-20T14:37:34-05:00 List-Id: In article , 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 . -- John B. Matthews trashgod at gmail dot com