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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: Alan E & Carmel J Brain Subject: Re: Porting Experiences (was Ada and Pascal etc ) Date: 1997/11/01 Message-ID: <345BB35E.4488@dynamite.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 287135054 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <34566fe9.447229@news.mindspring.com> <345673af.1413708@news.mindspring.com> <3456b9f3.0@news.eznet.net> <3456e71b.3833189@news.mindspring.com> <3459AC95.1D75@dynamite.com.au> <63bhta$g2e@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> Organization: @home Reply-To: aebrain@dynamite.com.au Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jon S Anthony wrote: > > Craig Franck writes: > > > Jon S Anthony wrote: > > > >That rings true as well. Typically porting Ada code between platforms > > >or compilers amounts to a recompilation. > > > > Something like a Windows to Mac port? How platform specific was the > > code? A recompilation port would be the ideal we all chase after. If > > you have such great splatfrom tools, you should feel lucky. > > I've not had any need (or opportunity) to port to Mac. The code in > question went between VMS (VAX&Alpha), Sparc Solaris, Sparc SunOS, > HP-UX, Intel Win/NT and across three different compilers. > > One was about 60K lines with lots of generics and tasks. > > Another was around 200K lines with lots of (goofy use) of generics. > > No #ifdefs stuff anywhere in site. If that's C code you're talking about, I'm radically impressed. If that's C++ code, then you're qualified to walk on water, or more likely you're a purveyor of Tall Stories. If that's Ada, then it's par for the course. -- aebrain@dynamite.com.au <> <> How doth the little Crocodile | Alan & Carmel Brain| xxxxx Improve his shining tail? | Canberra Australia | xxxxxHxHxxxxxx _MMMMMMMMM_MMMMMMMMM abrain@cs.adfa.oz.au o OO*O^^^^O*OO o oo oo oo oo By pulling MAERKLIN Wagons, in 1/220 Scale