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: 103376,87dcbc853960d3bd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Moving from Ada 83 to Ada 95 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:30:00 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.104.46 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1101346200 63.184.104.46 (Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:30:00 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:30:00 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6445 Date: 2004-11-25T01:30:00+00:00 List-Id: vrenna wrote: > Has someone done such thing? I need to move a huge application made > in Ada 83 and installed on Solaris, to Ada 95 (probably on Linux)... > looks very tough but maybe there're automatic tools and good advices > out there. What do you say? I've moved large quantities simply by recompiling. Actual incompatibilities in the languages are quite rare. If the code is designed for portability, then I'd be surprised if you have a problem. -- Jeff Carter "I'm particularly glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age." Blazing Saddles 88