From: fjh@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: Reading a line of arbitrary length
Date: 1997/03/06
Date: 1997-03-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5flm4e$ngl@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1997Mar5.102140.1@eisner
kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
>It seems to me that by omission the Ada 95 (or 83, for that matter)
>reference manual establishes that the "defined standard minimal interface"
>is one without programmer control or API. Anything on top of that is
>implementation-specific.
Well, by omission it also implies that only conservative garbage
collection can be used -- or at least that memory areas used by the
foreign language interface must be conservatively scanned. This is a
potentially undesirable constaint to place on implementations.
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1997-02-12 0:00 Reading a line of arbitrary length Thomas Koenig
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-12 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Rex Reges
1997-02-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-02-19 0:00 ` Jean-Etienne Doucet
1997-02-21 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Rex Reges
[not found] ` <dewar.855848896@merv>
[not found] ` <33037A74.44AF@mds.lmco.com>
1997-02-14 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-02-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-17 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <dewar.855929857@merv>
1997-02-14 0:00 ` Gene Ouye
1997-02-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-02-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-14 0:00 ` Rex Reges
[not found] ` <dsmith-1302971702290001@dsmith.clark.net>
1997-02-14 0:00 ` Mats Weber
[not found] ` <33047186.463F@mds.lmco.com>
1997-02-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-22 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-02-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-25 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-27 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Thomas Koenig
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <dewar.857447653@m <JSA.97Mar4154951@alexandria>
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson [this message]
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Really more GC talk (was: Reading a line of arbitrary length) Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Reading a line of arbitrary length Jon S Anthony
1997-02-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-02-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-25 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
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