[Info-vax] link to what is actually being ported to x86?

[Ian Miller]

On Monday, June 3, 2019 at 6:39:24 PM UTC+1, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-06-03, Ian Miller <gxys at uk2.net> wrote:
> > On Monday, June 3, 2019 at 1:26:36 PM UTC+1, Simon Clubley wrote:
> >> On 2019-06-02, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> >> > On 6/2/2019 7:16 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> >> >> We've had many a discussion, but is there an official link to what is and is not being ported to x86? I know we had conversations about "desktop" and got some "server only" answer but that didn't really answer the what is/is not since there has to be some kind of console/terminal even for a server.
> >> >>
> >> 
> >> Ada will not be available on x86-64.
> >> 
> > people are still working on the ADA compiler question. It's important to some companies.
> 
> Interesting.
> 
> I wonder if people are more interested in running old Ada 83 code,
> in which case I wonder if it's viable to port DEC Ada across, or
> if they need Ada 95 and above, in which case they need GNAT or
> another Ada 95 and above compiler.
> 
> Simon.
> 
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I expect any future compiler will be based on the GNAT ADA compiler starting with the opensource version. I am told that the ADACore port of this to OpenVMS I64 does compile old ADA83 sources.