From: carlsons@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Susan Carlson)
Subject: Ada 9X Project * Report to the Public * 7/92
Keywords: Ada 9X, realtime, GNU Ada 9X, 9X schedule, 9X ACVC
Organization: Ada Information Clearinghouse
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:46:34 GMT



                             Ada 9X 
                      Report to the Public
                            July 1992

(posted for the Ada 9X Project Office)

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.

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, MN 87117-6008
Tel: 505/846-0817
Fax: 505/846-2290
andersonc@plk.af.mil
From: tom@mothra.rose.hp.com (Thomas Vachuska)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:48:48 GMT
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