Re: Ada design documents

[Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>]

Ehud Lamm wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I always find reading the Ada9x (and older) design documents fascinating.
> Arecent discussion here pointed to an older discussion of
> access-to-subprogram types, whcih referred to the MRT documents. Reading
> those was very informative.
> Reading Tuft's LSN about multiple inheritance is another example, and the
> LSN about hierarchical libraries is also highly recommended to reaaders
> that are not from the Ada9x team/DR etc.

For a list of the Ada 9X Language Study Notes, see:

    http://www.adaic.org/standards/95lsn/lsn-titles

The actual LSNs may be found in the enclosing directory:

    http://www.adaic.org/standards/95lsn/

> I was looking for a discussion of the "storage pool" mechanism, but wasn't
> able to find it.
> Can anyone point me in the reight direction?

There is no LSN on that.  Some of the rationale for storage pools
is given in the old "Mapping Specification" documents, in Appendix
G, but I don't know of any on-line versions of that document other
than version 4.6, which omitted appendix G for some reason.

You still might find Mapping Spec version 4.6 interesting reading:

    http://www.adaic.org/standards/95lsn/ms-4.6

> 
> Thanks
> 
> P.S
> If anyone wants to read the documents I referred to, he may go to the AJPO
> directory at http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/ada/ajpo/ . Going into
> the pol-history direcotry will bring you to many interesting documents.
> 
> Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il
> http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ehudlamm <== My home on the web
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