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Migrating Large Applications from Ada83 to Ada95

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Reliable SoftwareTechnologies — Ada-Europe 2001 (Ada-Europe 2001)

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The CFMU has developed mission critical applications for Europewide flight plan processing and air traffic management activities using Ada83. This paper presents the techniques and tools used for the migration from an Ada83 to an Ada95 compiler and run-time. It puts a particular emphasis on both the software management aspects and the technical aspects e.g. language aspects, run-time evolution, how to cater for incompatibilities between Ada83 and Ada95, elaboration order, etc...

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  1. Development Division, Eurocontrol/CFMU, Rue de la Fusée, 96, B-1130, Brussels, Belgium

    Philippe Waroquiers, Stef Van Vlierberghe, Dirk Craeynest, Andrew Hately & Erik Duvinage

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  1. Offis nv/sa - Aubay Group, Offis & K.U. Leuven, Weiveldlaan 41/32, 1930, Zaventem, Belgium

    Dirk Craeynest

  2. EPFL-DI-LGL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), 1015, Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland

    Alfred Strohmeier

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Waroquiers, P., Van Vlierberghe, S., Craeynest, D., Hately, A., Duvinage, E. (2001). Migrating Large Applications from Ada83 to Ada95. In: Craeynest, D., Strohmeier, A. (eds) Reliable SoftwareTechnologies — Ada-Europe 2001. Ada-Europe 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2043. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45136-6_31

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