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Subject: Re: Moving from Ada 83 to Ada 95
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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
Date: 24 Nov 2004 22:27:52 +0100
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"vrenna" <closure@nin.com> writes:

> 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?

That Ada95 is mostly upward compatible with Ada83 and that it should not be as
tough as you could think. It depends mostly on the compiler vendor specific
libraries used in the Ada83 code. I would start here.

Pascal.

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