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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Urgent question: malloc and ada...
Date: 1998/04/30
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In article <EACHUS.98Apr30171942@spectre.mitre.org>, eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes:

>     No, by the name used in the pragma.  The conventions Ada, Intrinsic,
> Fortran, C, and COBOL are defined in the RM, as are the packages
> Interfaces.C, Interfaces.COBOL, and Interfaces.Fortran. Compilers are
> allowed to add support for other languages, and in the particular case
> mentioned above, they would choose one C compiler to correspond to the
> convention C, and others could be named Gcc, VisualC, etc.  In practice,
> the compiler that corresponds to C is the one used to compile the OS.

I find it strange that even in comp.lang.ada a distinguished contributor
would express the assumption that the operating system was written in C.

Larry Kilgallen