From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada --> C Translation, was: Win CE target
Date: 1998/10/12
Date: 1998-10-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1998Oct12.162441.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6vrlb4$jj$1@jupiter.cs.uml.edu
In article <6vrlb4$jj$1@jupiter.cs.uml.edu>, dramirez@cs.uml.edu (Dr Amirez) writes:
> Well the reason why I brought the Operating systems issue up
> is that it's impossible to write Ada utilities without an
> Ada OS. But if you could build Ada utilities on UNIX that
> outperform UNIX C utilities then it's fine with me. Make sure
> you ship copies to the ACM.
I can't speak for Unix, but on VMS it is quite possible to write
general purpose utilities in Ada. The trick is in the bindings
that describe the operating system services to the compiler. This
is no different than for C, Pascal, Fortran, Cobol or any other
language.
> The core dumping has been a facility on UNIX to assist
> in debugging .Maybe you don't know enough about UNIX.
Although VMS has a memory dump capability, I find it much more
helpful to run my defective Ada program with the debugger. Then
when there is a problem where I want to examine variables, the
capability is right there. My conversations in the past with Unix
people indicate they use the same technique.
There is a class of problems where the program will fail when
run without the debugger but will succeed when the debugger is
present. In that case, a memory dump may be helpful, but I find
this type of failure much less likely to occur with Ada than with
other languages.
Larry Kilgallen
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-20 0:00 Win CE target William A Whitaker
1998-09-20 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-09-21 0:00 ` dennison
1998-09-21 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-28 0:00 ` Ada --> C Translation, was: " Stefan Helfert
1998-09-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-09-30 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-10-10 0:00 ` Dr Amirez
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-10 0:00 ` Dr Amirez
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Dr Amirez
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1998-10-13 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-12 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-12 0:00 ` PC
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Operating System in Ada (was Ada --> C Translation) Larry Kilgallen
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-13 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-12 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Van Snyder
1998-10-22 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Ada --> C Translation, was: Win CE target Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Tasking/blocking system calls (was: Ada --> C Translation) Mats Weber
1998-09-20 0:00 ` Win CE target dewarr
1998-09-20 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-23 0:00 ` falis
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