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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/4/2019 6:31 AM, Ian Miller wrote:
> 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.
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>>>> Ada will not be available on x86-64.
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>>> 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.
> 
> 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.

If Ada95 is a superset of Ada83 then it has to.

Arne