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On 09/01/2016 09:33 AM, AdaMagica wrote:
>
> I re-hosted several million lines of airborne embedded Ada code to different
> hardware (big endian to little endian) with compilers from different
> manufacturers (Ada 83 to Ada 95/2005) for use in full scale flight
> simulators. And to my big surprise, only very few pieces of code had to be
> touched.

Nor is this an unusual experience. With only a little extra effort, it's quite 
easy to write Ada that is completely portable across compilers from different 
vendors (for a specific version of the language) and across platforms. I've 
written quite a bit of it.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"To Err is human, to really screw up, you need C++!"
Stéphane Richard
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