david@ssc-vax.UUCP (04/02/84)
I received a number of replies on my piracy article about SuperSoft Ada. I didn't mean for it to be an advertisement, but a number of people had several questions which can be answered by a short blurb: ** blatant advertisement starts here ** Version III of the SuperSoft Ada compiler runs under CP/M-80 (sorry, no CP/M-86 version) and practically requires a 64k machine. It is a 4-phase compiler and generates native 8080 code. It presently implements about 65% of the standard Ada syntax. Mainly generics and tasking are not implemented, with other missing bits and pieces (variant records, representation specifications, access types, fixed point types). Packages, separate compilation and exceptions are implemented. Version III generates relocatable modules almost identical to the microsoft format (documentation includes instructions for writing assembly language programs). The Byte prime number benchmark runs in about *20 seconds*. Included in the package are two manuals (about 120 pages of documentation), the compiler, linking loader, pretty-printer, and lots of sample Ada programs, including the text_io package in source form. SuperSoft hasn't formally released this version, as far as I know. They have been sitting on it for about a month now (quality-assurance, they tell me). If you called and harassed them, you may be able to produce some results. ** end blatant advertisement ** -- David Norris :-) -- uw-beaver!ssc-vax!david