Ada Info List -- Hosts and Targets with Ada Compilers Available

The following is a partial list of Hosts, Targets, and operating systems supported by various Ada compiler vendors:

Hosts:
SPARC/Solaris, HP9000/HP-UX, RS6000/AIX, IBM390/MVS, Intelx86/Win-NT/9X, SGI/IRIX, Concurrent/PowerMAX, Intelx86/Linux, Intelx86/OS/2, PowerMAC/Tenon, VAX/VMS, Alpha/Open-VMS, Intelx86/DOS, Alpha/DEC-Unix, Siemens-Nixdorf RM200/SINIX
Targets:
All the above hosts plus: PowerPC/VxWorks, PowerPC/Raven, Intelx86/PharLapETS, PowerPC/Integrity, HP7xx/HP-RT, MIPS/VxWorks, RAD6000/VxWorks, 68K/VxWorks, Pentium/VxWorks, ADI-21020/Bare, i960/HAOS, PowerPC/LynxOS, ADI-SHARC/Virtuoso, IBM390/CICS, Nighthawk 6800

Please note that the Hosts and Targets list is not complete. Some compilers are used in-house without being officially validated, while others are still in the development process. In particular, there are a number of GNAT-derivatives being used for production work for targets or hosts not listed above.

Integration Approaches

There are also Ada 95 compilers that generate Java byte codes, as well as those that generate optimized ISO/ANSI C as their intermediate code. The ISO/ANSI C allow for integration with JVM-based environments, as well as with any existing ISO/ANSI-C-supportive environment.

The GNAT compiler, supported by AdaCore, targets the GNU "GCC" optimizer and backend. As with GCC, the GNAT compiler operates under the "open source" principle (the GNAT front end is written in Ada 95 itself). Given these three integration approaches (JVM, ISO/ANSI C, and GCC), plus the existing retargetable technologies of the other compiler vendors, an Ada 95 capability is readily available on essentially any platform of interest now or in the future.

Ada Tool Vendors & Services

The Ada compiler and tool market (valued at approximately $100 Million) is served by a number of software vendors.

Vendor Products (those marked with "*" are members of the Ada Resource Association)
Vendors Providing Multiple Ada Compilers	Vendors Offering Compilers for Their Hardware or Chips	Tool Vendors Providing Ada-Supportive Tools
AdaCore* Aonix* DDC-I Green Hills Software IBM Rational Software* Irvine Compiler Corp. OC Systems RR Software Sofcheck* (formerly Intermetrics compilers) TLD Systems	Analog Devices (for the SHARC) Concurrent SGI	Ainslie Software (AdaJNI) ARTiSAN Software (Ada Synchronizer) GrammaTech (Ada-Assured) Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS Ada Xcessories) IPL (AdaTest) McCabe and Associates (McCabe QA/Test/Reengineer/2000) McKae Technologies (DTraq) Objective Interface Systems (ORBExpress/Ada) Polyspace Technologies (Polyspace Verifier) Praxis Critical Systems (SPARK)* Raincode (Raincode for Ada) Vector Software (AdaCAST) and many others (see Compilers and Tools for a more complete listing)

Many of the product vendors listed above also offer Ada training and mentoring services.

For a sampling of projects that have used Ada successfully, browse Ada at Work.

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