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: 103376,9b346ee85d1aa69a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-18 07:03:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Accessing I/O Ports in Windows NT/2000 Date: 18 Jan 2002 07:03:50 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0201180703.1e4de1ed@posting.google.com> References: <3C45FC6C.2030208@mail1.monmouth.army.mil> <4519e058.0201170735.c5ff137@posting.google.com> <3C474180.8060306@mail1.monmouth.army.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1011366230 18208 127.0.0.1 (18 Jan 2002 15:03:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Jan 2002 15:03:50 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19048 Date: 2002-01-18T15:03:50+00:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Glenn wrote in message news:<3C474180.8060306@mail1.monmouth.army.mil>... > drivers for Windows NT. I realize that Ada doesn't provide these > facilities, but I hoped to find that someone had already written such an > interface/wrapper package. Ada also doesn't support ODBC, TCP/IP, nor > Windows for that matter, but a lot has been written to bind with them. "Doesn't support" is certinaly not the way I'd put it. Ada was *made* for doing stuff like this. Sure, device drivers are not part of the language. But you could say the same for C. In both cases the facilities for writing them, including interfacing to the OS, are there. So it would be equally (un)true to say that C does not support any of that stuff. > Oh well, I guess I have to to be the first one sometimes. Someone always has to go first. However, I doubt you are indeed in that situation. I was only trying to point out that this is not the place to gather that kind of information. A couple of us here might happen to know a lot about Windows device drivers, but then a couple of us here might happen to know a lot about Geneology too. That wouldn't make this the best place to go for Geneology questions. If you find out what you need to do (what OS and/or 3-rd party API routines you need to call), but don't know how to call that stuff from Ada, this is the place to come to.