From: Mats Weber <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch>
Subject: Re: GNAT for Unix systems programming?
Date: 1997/03/11
Date: 1997-03-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3325AB0C.1136@elca-matrix.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5g3iao$agt@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
Thomas Koenig wrote:
>
> I'd like to know how good GNAT is for systems programming under
> Unix, especially for networking.
If you want to access UNIX stuff, you should definitely do so through
the standard POSIX 1003.5 binding.
By the way, is there an implementation of that standard that works with
GNAT ?
> Is there any standard for interfacing with the Berkeley socket
> interface and auxiliary routines (inet_ntoa and all the rest)?
Unfortunately not, but some non-standard packages do this quite well:
- Paradise (I don't know if this still exists)
- Parts of the GNAT implementation of the Ada 95 distributed systems
annex. I don't know if some packages in there are designed for direct
use by programs doing socket communication, but I'm sure someone else
will clarify this.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-03-11 0:00 GNAT for Unix systems programming? Thomas Koenig
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Mats Weber [this message]
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Andre Spiegel
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Thomas Koenig
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