Re: GNAT.Serial_Communications ?

[anon@anon.org (anon)]

It depends.  On the low-end motherboards and stocked computer system the 
uarts have been removed, or you could say replaced by the usb ports.  But 
most other motherboards and some server still have them.  Plus you can 
always add a uart card to any computer.

In <c308f2d0-a0d9-4649-94eb-1d88e60452dc@x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>, stephane.los@neuf.fr writes:
>On 9 ao=FBt, 16:58, Samuel Tardieu <s...@rfc1149.net> wrote:
>> >>>>> "Tomek" =3D=3D Tomek Walkuski <tomek.walku...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Tomek> I have got GNAT.Serial_Communications sources from GCC CVS,
>> Tomek> renamed packages and I am trying to compile:
>>
>> You can't just do that and expect to work, as this unit depends on
>> other runtime library changes. For example, the "close" function in
>> System.Crtl was added on March 26th and is needed by
>> GNAT.Serial_Communications.
>>
>> If you need this unit, you should either wait for the next release or
>> build a new compiler and runtime libraries.
>>
>>   Sam
>> --
>> Samuel Tardieu -- s...@rfc1149.net --http://www.rfc1149.net/
>
>Hello,
>
>I am learning Ada and I find it quite funny that this serial stuff
>happens as COM ports are no more available on the machines...
>
>Am I right spending my time trying to learn this language or is it
>like latin (good to know some sentences to shine at tea time) ?
>
>I don't appreciate tea too much...
>
>Steve