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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: Bug or Limitation? (was: Ada is almost useless in embedded
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Date: 1996/03/16
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> T.E.D. said
> 
> "Just to clarify, this was a documented limitation of Integer_IO. I'm
> not sure if the attribute would have worked, and I don't believe I
> checked. It would be odd for that to be different, though (If you
> already have the code to do this in the compiler, why not paste it
> into Integer_IO?)."
> 
> SMART does not include Text_IO. The S in SMART stands for Small!

ARRRG! 

You are absolutely right, of course.

Honestly, though. I'm pretty sure this restriction existed. If it 
wasn't Text_IO (which it couldn't have been) then it must have been
the attribute. I'm about 2,000 miles away from the closest documentation
set for that compiler that I know about, so the more I try to 
elaborate on this, the more likely I am to say something completly
wrong.

(I sure hope someone with access to an Alsys 68K SMART manual looks 
this up, before I start saying it was in SMART's tasking or garbage 
collection code).


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