From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Operating System in Ada (was Ada --> C Translation)
Date: 1998/10/13
Date: 1998-10-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1998Oct13.041000.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87d87xmdkn.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com
In article <87d87xmdkn.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com>, Chris Morgan <mihalis@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
>
>> The operating system that most people would think about copying first
>> is Unix -- and that seems like a non-starter from its anti-Ada interfaces
>> (null-terminated strings and the like). Yes it is possible to interact,
>> but it is not in the "spirit" of Ada.
>
> I totally disagree with this. My view of Ada strings is that they are
> a higher level construct than C style strings. I believe at least some
> Ada implementations on top of Unix simply use many of the standard C
> library's string functions under the hood. I may be wrong but isn't a
> null-terminated string a valid representation of an Ada string?
Ada strings allow a null in the middle, without terminating the string.
To the extent that an operating system accepts that, it would behave
quite differently from what a C programmer would expect, and would
not match Unix. I believe the null termination is defined in the C
standard.
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
1998-10-13 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
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 ` 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 ` Chris Morgan
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-12 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Van Snyder
1998-10-22 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Ada --> C Translation, was: Win CE target dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-13 0:00 ` 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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