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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: New GNAT ports (was Re: Ada and Automotive Industry)
Date: 1997/01/09
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dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

>Richard said

>"The only reason that I bothered about the placement of code at all
>was that the 8051 book I was studying included a memory test program
>that did this.  According to the Ada 83 LRM I had handy, you _couldn't_
>supply address clauses for code."

>That is wrong, Ada 83 did allow you to specify the address of a subprogram,

No, it is not wrong.  "code" is not a synonym of "subprogram".
The memory test program in question had reason to scatter _parts_ of
a subprogram around memory, and I appear to have got "Ada 83 didn't
let you supply address clauses for code _other_ than the start of a
subprogram" right.

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Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok; RMIT Comp.Sci.