Re: GNAT for Alpha

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <3B3B74E1.D2239654@worldnet.att.net>, James Rogers says...
>
>The question about GNAT and Alpha reminded me of a item in my local
>newspaper declaring that Intel has (or is in the process of) purchasing
>the Compaq Alpha facilities and talent. It appears that Compaq will be
>using the Intel Itanium chip technology instead of Alpha.
>
>This leads to another thought. Are there any Ada implementations
>targeted to the Itanium chip? Are any in the works. This chip seems
>like a good home for Ada.

That question reminds me a lot of the questions several months back about Ada
compilers for MacOSX before it was released. Its a bit unresonable to expect an
Ada compiler for an unreleased processor to exist. 

However, I do think that an Itanium GCC is in the works. Gnat shouldn't be too
big of a jump from there (presuming the OS is a supported one).

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