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From: Brian Drummond <brian3@shapes.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Ada on openvms for alpha
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On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 12:29:00 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:

> Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com> writes:
> 
>> David Botton <david@botton.com> wrote:
>>
>>> For example, I don't have the interest nor am I the expert, but some
>>> one that wanted to a make a few dollars should be able to roll this
>>> guy an openVMS alpha of at least an older version of GNAT that will
>>> work. I am sure he would be will to pay for it.
>>> 
>>> 
>> Don't quote me on this but I'm fairly sure the VMS packages are not in
>> the FSF tree.
> 
> GCC 4.9.1 has 58 files with *vms* in the name in gcc/ada. For example,
> mlib-tgt-specific-vms-alpha.adb, mlib-tgt-specific-vms-ia64.adb

And the alpha backend still looks to be there in gcc/config/alpha . 
If nobody's built it in that configuration for years there's likely to be 
some bit-rot, but it may be recoverable with a bit (probably quite a lot) 
of work.

- Brian