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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a00006d3c4735d70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-14 01:17:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fi.sn.net!newsfeed2.fi.sn.net!feeder2.news.jippii.net!reader1.news.jippii.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Aatu Koskensilta User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Certified C compilers for safety-critical embedded systems References: <4oqdnRwmhtQtd5ndRVn-jg@comcast.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <3P7Nb.1640$EY1.453@reader1.news.jippii.net> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:20:30 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.74.11.141 X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@saunalahti.com X-Trace: reader1.news.jippii.net 1074071871 195.74.11.141 (Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:17:51 EET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:17:51 EET Organization: Saunalahti Customer Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4387 Date: 2004-01-14T11:20:30+02:00 List-Id: David Starner wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 02:07:27 -0500, Robert I. Eachus wrote: > > Perhaps Ada is in that category, and template programming in C++ is > compile-time Turing-complete. Strictly speaking C++ is not compile-time Turing-complete, since there is a limit (17) on depth of template recursion. On some compilers (at least gcc), this limit can be increased, but I don't know if any of them support unbounded template recursion. -- Aatu Koskensilta (aatu.koskensilta@xortec.fi) "Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, daruber muss man schweigen" - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus