Re: Could you write a BSD like os in Ada?

[Bob Broderbund <bbroderbund@broderbund.com>]

On 2016-08-28, Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2016-08-28, Bob Broderbund <bbroderbund@broderbund.com> wrote:
>> On 2016-08-28, Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>>
>>> This was using the latest versions of gcc at the time. The problem here
>>> _appeared_ to be that not all the required bits to build gcc for a VMS
>>> target had been pushed from the AdaCore code base to the FSF code base.
>>
>> I meant I suspect there needs to be the latest and greatest gcc on VMS
>> already or this is going to be very hard. I didn't understand the last
>> part above. Did you mean you do have a current gcc build on VMS after all
>> and it is only the gcc-ada pieces that aren't there? Or did you mean you
>> can't build the latest gcc on VMS for whatever reason?
>>
>
> No, I don't have a current gcc build for VMS.

Ok. I think that is going to be key to get much of anything done that is
based on gcc including gcc-ada and GNAT. Adacore has the knowledge and
resources and motive to do that. I suspect we'll hear good news at some
point including maybe even a freebie gcc port if we're lucky.

> AdaCore not only updated the Ada (and other) front ends to support VMS
> but also did the prerequisite back end code generation port to allow code
> to be generated for a VMS target in the first place.

Yes, of course. Dewar's passing probably leaves a big hole in a lot of these
pieces but I suspect there are still enough geniuses at Adacore to get just
about anything done.

> [*] An old version of gcc was ported to VAX/VMS many years ago, but that
> was for VAX only and only for some of the languages which existed in gcc
> at the time IIRC.

That's what I thought.

Bob

P.S. Fixed subject line. Ada the language, not ADA the American Dental
Association, Americans with Disabilities Act, etc.