[Info-vax] Ada on VMS, was: Re: Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-05-10, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> On 2018-05-10 00:11:59 +0000, Arne Vajhj said:
>
>> Third tier: C++, Ada, PL/I, Macro-32
>
> Support for clang gets both C and C++, Ada is third-party, PL/I is no 
> longer offered and AFAIK didn't get ported, and Macro32 is a sizable 
> hunk of OpenVMS.  There's a decent-sized hunk of Ada in the operating 
> system.  And the APIs for that part of OpenVMS do need some work around 
> complexity and fitness for common uses, but I digress.

Ada was third party, but I thought AdaCore had terminated support
for GNAT on VMS. Is that wrong or has the situation changed there ?

Is there still Ada code in the Itanium VMS code base and if so, which
compiler is used to compile it ?

Simon.

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