From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,216b18d81cce4f75 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-04 07:38:37 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B183CB8.3EE396E7@engineer.com> <_M3S6.8957$HL5.1284411@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> <3B1958AD.F7D7A5CC@engineer.com> Subject: Re: Ada Microkernel? Message-ID: <23NS6.3767$v4.178590@www.newsranger.com> X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 10:37:50 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 14:37:50 GMT Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!news.bnb-lp.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8063 Date: 2001-06-04T14:37:50+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B1958AD.F7D7A5CC@engineer.com>, B. Douglas Hilton says... > What confounds me is how to provide system level calls for any >C applications. Say I write my awesome Ada microkerenel, obviously >I need to provide a C api if I want to use the GNU tools. "pragma Export (C, ...)" ought to do the trick. Then again, you could just rewrite all those GNU tools in Ada. :-) --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com