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- From: carlsons@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Susan Carlson)
- Subject: Ada 9X Rept to Public - July '92 (corrected)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.175342.1820@sei.cmu.edu>
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- Organization: Ada Information Clearinghouse
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:53:42 GMT
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-
- In the last posting of the July Ada 9X Report to the public, there
- were two errors:
-
- 1. In the listing of Annex authors, Ben Brosgol (Informaiton
- Systems) was omitted. Dr. Brosgol's e-mail address is
- brosgol@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu.
-
- 2. Christine Anderson's address should have read "NM" for
- New Mexico.
-
- A corrected version of the public report follows.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Posted for the Ada 9X Project Office.
-
-
- Ada 9X
- Report to the Public
- July 1992
-
- Realtime Issues
-
- In the continuing effort to ensure that the realtime community's
- needs are addressed, the Ada 9X Teams are focusing attention on
- realtime primitives to support efficient customized
- synchronization. While this concept is not new, the challenge will
- be to arrive on a set of primitives acceptable to the majority of
- realtime users. As a starting point, the Ada 9X Project Office is
- surveying vendors to determine what sets of primitives they
- currently provide to users. More on this later.
-
- GNU Ada 9X
-
- The Ada 9X Project Office has awarded a contract to New York
- University for development of a GNU Ada 9X compilation systems on
- the SUNs and PCs. The work is funded by the Ada Joint Program
- Office, DARPA, and the DoD CIM initiative. Binding implementations
- to X windows, POSIX and MACH will also be developed. In true Free
- Software Foundation tradition, the source code will be freely
- available. The first delivery, expected in August 1993, will
- include most of the Ada 9X features. For further information
- contact Dr. Robert Dewar at NYU, dewar@cs.nyu.edu.
-
- The Schedule
-
- Work is progressing well. The Ada 9X Mapping/Revision Team (MRT),
- Intermetrics, has moved into the revision phase, translating the
- Ada 9X mapping into language rules and final wording. Two more
- world-class Ada experts have been added to the MRT: Dr John Barnes
- and Dr. Mike Woodger. Both have been associated with Ada since its
- inception. John will be working on the Rationale Document and Mike
- will be providing review and comment on the final language
- reference manual wording.
-
- The Ada 9X standard will be composed of a core, a library, and
- optional annexes. The annexes include: realtime, systems,
- numerics, distribution, safety critical/security, and information
- systems. Annex authors are seeking volunteer reviewers. If you
- are interested please contact the annex authors directly:
-
- Realtime and Systems
- Offer Pazy: offer@inmet.inmet.com
-
- Numerics
- Ken Dritz: dritz@mcs.anl.gov
-
- Distribution
- Anthony Gargaro: gargaro@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
-
- Safety Critical/Security
- John McHugh: mchugh@cs.unc.edu
- or Brian Wichmann: baw@seg.npl.co.uk.
-
- Information Systems
- Ben Brosgol: brosgol@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
-
- We are anticipating completion of the standard by the fall of 1993
- when ISO and ANSI balloting will commerce. The balloting process
- takes a year, so Ada should become a new ANSI and ISO standard by
- Dec 1994.
-
- Ada 9X User/Implementer Contract Option Awarded
-
- All three Ada 9X User/Implementer Teams (AETECH, Tartan, and
- TeleSoft) were given the go-ahead in June to complete their Ada 9X
- implementations and provide feedback to the Ada 9X ACVC Team. This
- activity is important as a sanity check on the Ada 9X development
- and as a facilitator for time-to-market. This effort is being
- funded by the AJPO, SDIO, and the Air Force Electronics Systems
- Center's Computer Resource Management Technology Program.
-
- Ada 9X ACVC Draft Test Availability
-
- One of the objectives of the ACVC review process for Ada 9X is to
- promote feedback to the test developers and provide compiler
- developers with maximum visibility into the process. Accordingly,
- draft tests may be accessed by anonymous ftp over the Internet from
- "ftp.sei.cmu.edu" in the directory "pub/acvc-9X". Naming
- conventions for the test are the same as for the Ada 83 ACVC test
- suite except that a date has been appended to the file and test
- names to identify the version of the test for the purposes of this
- preliminary release. Initially the tests in the directory will be
- those that have been corrected, consolidated or otherwise modified
- as a result of formulating a baseline test suite which will be
- applicable to both Ada 83 and Ada 9X (the 9X-Basic release).
- Subsequently, tests of Ada 9X specific functionality will be added.
- It should be emphasized that tests in this directory represent
- work-in-progress and are subject to change. Comments may be sent
- to ada9X-acvc@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu with the full name of the test in
- the subject line.
-
- Ada 9X Information Availability
-
- Just a reminder that many Ada 9X documents are available on the Ada
- 9X bulletin board, 1-800-Ada-9X25. Also if you would like to
- provide review and comment, you are welcome to become an Ada 9X
- Volunteer Reviewer -- contact ada9X-vr@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu.
-
- Ada 9X Project Office Relocates
-
- The Project Office and I moved 1500 miles west at the end of June
- from Florida to New Mexico. The move went well (only one broken
- flowerpot and a missing electric drill which is probably packed
- with the Christmas decorations), but getting boxes unpacked and
- files organized at the office is a slow process so lease have
- patience. I hope to have a secretary by the time you read this
- article, so perhaps the phone will not ring off the hook if you
- call. All the Ada 9X Teams came to Albuquerque, New Mexico in July
- for team meetings. We agreed it was the high point of the project
- as we dined at Sandia Crest 10,500 feet above sea-level.
-
-
- Please note my new address:
-
- Chris Anderson
- Ada 9X Project Office
- PL/VTET
- Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-6008
- Tel: 505/846-0817
- Fax: 505/846-2290
- andersonc@plk.af.mil
-