[Info-vax] The future of Ada on VMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-05-24, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>
> BTW, I received some information recently which strongly implies that
> my efforts to get FSF GNAT running on VMS Alpha (instead of Adacore's
> paid GNAT Pro compiler) were never going to succeed because it appears
> not all the required VMS bits exist in the FSF GCC code base.
>

For anyone confused by the above wording, I meant attempting to get GNAT
running on VMS by starting from the FSF GNAT compiler compiled as a Linux
based cross compiler for VMS, instead of starting with a GNAT Pro compiler
for VMS (which wasn't an option for me but which Gerard had access to.)

Simon.

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