Re: ada vs. cpp

[James Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net>]

"Robert*@" wrote:
> 
> In article <3BC30621.BDF74138@worldnet.att.net>, James says...
> >
> 
> >I would, however, like to see some publicly available GC
> >implementations for Ada.
> 
> Unless all Ada implementations provide GC (as an option), you will have
> broken Ada.
> 
> Why?
> 
> Becuase if I write an Ada program on a GC enabled compiler/run-time, and later
> on
> take the code and build on another Ada compiler/run-time which does not
> support GC, then my program will not work (opps, forgot to free my own
> memory, But I though the run-time will do it for me?)
> 
> THis makes Ada source code much less portable across Ada systems.

Not necessarily. If the GC is defined in its own package, then all
packages requiring GC will have to state a dependency upon that
package.

This is no different than using any other package with non-standard
dependencies.

Jim Rogers
Colorado Springs, Colorado USA