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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f1920d4a6f558148 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Samuel Tardieu Subject: Re: Rational vs SunAda Date: 1996/09/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 178629468 sender: tardieu@gargantua.enst.fr references: <322DBF90.3B38@ultranet.com> to: David Chase content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 organization: TELECOM Paris mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-09-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >>>>> "David" == David Chase writes: David> My company is currently in the process of acquiring Ada David> development tools to support a new project. We budgeted for David> SunAda but I believe that this is the same as Rational Ada. I David> have had difficulty in trying to get answers from Sun and David> Rational concerning whether the offerings from both are the David> same and even whether the current version is validated David> Ada95. If so, I would also like to know whether Ada83 David> compatibility can be enforced through pragmas or compiler David> switches. The company I was working for last year was using SunAda. Each time we had to call the hotline because of a compiler bug, the call has been redirected directly to Rational. So, if you want not to loose 1 day each time you find a bug, I'd suggest you buy the compiler directly from Rational. During the whole year (from 95/09 to 96/08), I've compiled the same code on SunAda, Thomsoft and GNAT compilers. While SunAda was probably the best compiler at the beginning, GNAT has been chosen to go on because of the stability of the 3.05 release, even for Ada83 code. AFAIK, GNAT is not validated yet for Sun because noone paid for it. You should contact support@gnat.com (right address ?) to get more information about the validation process. Hope this helps. Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@ada.eu.org