[Info-vax] open source OpenVMS (Re: Oracle-RDB seminar notes)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-03-30, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2013-03-29 01:31, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>
>> Yes, GNAT is a GCC front end.
>>
>> BTW, which bare metal capable Ada compiler did you use ?
>
> If I remember right, it was Green Hill, but it's more than 10 years ago 
> now, so I might be confused.
> This was for military applications, so the hardware was special, the Ada 
> runtime system was adapted to the hardware, and I was writing code in 
> Ada which talked directly to all kind of hardware. It was actually 
> pretty ok. Describing bitfields that were device registers worked pretty ok.
>

Thanks; I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a currently available
Ada compiler I was unaware of.

Simon.

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