[Info-vax] VSI: "Official 8.4-1H1 Launch"

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-06-05, Bill Gunshannon <bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu> wrote:
>
> I suppose they could always go back and get the old NYU GNAT stuff
> (which I am fairly certain had a VMS port) and bring it up to current
> ADA Standards.  If ACT could do it I see no reason why the excellent
> compiler guys now working for VSI couldn't.  :-)
>

The NYU stuff is hopelessly out of date by today's standards.

The last VMS public version I remember seeing there was GNAT 3.12p
(about a decade ago) and that was when the GNAT kit was packaged
as a standalone patch which was integrated into the gcc version of
the day (gcc 2.8 IIRC) by the end user.

It would be a hopelessly useless base for bringing VMS Ada support to
current gcc versions. It would be far better to start with the partial
VMS Ada support which _has_ been integrated into the current public gcc
versions and turn that into something which can actually be built and
used.

The alternative is to have ACT provide a supported VMS x86-64 compiler
just as they have done for VMS Alpha/IA64.

Simon.

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