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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e80a1497a689d8a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Charles Hixson Subject: Re: Ammo-zilla Date: 1999/10/29 Message-ID: <3819D635.4FB6F529@mail.earthlink.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 542128445 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38120FAF.945ADD7D@hso.link.com> <7uutgd$87h$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <19991024.18033546@db3.max5.com> <38189268.43EB150F@mail.earthlink.net> <86ogdjtdwz.fsf@ppp-115-70.villette.club-internet.fr> <7vadsp$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu> <1999Oct28.221910.1@eisner> <7vb3c4$8a21@news.cis.okstate.edu> <381990d6_2@news1.prserv.net> X-Accept-Language: en X-Posted-Path-Was: not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-ELN-Date: 29 Oct 1999 17:15:25 GMT X-ELN-Insert-Date: Fri Oct 29 10:25:02 1999 Organization: MTC Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: The real problem is not that is doesn't reliably exist, it's that it doesn't have a well defined interface. An optional annex could solve this. There would need to be a required test to determine whether or not it was present, and a well defined interface to use if it were. Then each program could decide what to do if it were or were not present. As it is... one MUST depend on idiosyncratic behavior which is non-portable. And I *do* want to write portable applications, to the extent possible, given the trade-offs necessary. Matthew Heaney wrote: > In article <7vb3c4$8a21@news.cis.okstate.edu> , dvdeug@x8b4e53cd. (David > Starner) wrote: > > > And as long as you can't depend on it, GC's main advantage - saving the > > programer trouble worring about memory - is useless. > > But only to the extent that you want portability across Ada compilers.