From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: ada -> C translator
Date: 1997/04/07
Date: 1997-04-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5i9r5t$nb6@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.860361046@merv
dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>But we are talking here about generating very low level C, which will for
>instance have to reflect various requirements for the ABI in which it
>is generated (e.g. length of standard types, representation of types,
>calling sequence rules etc).
Why will the C generated C code have to reflect ABI requirements?
Does conformance to the Ada standard require using a particular ABI?
Can't an Ada implementation make up its own ABI?
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-04-03 0:00 ada -> C translator Gabriel Monaton
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-04-05 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-05 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson [this message]
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08 0:00 ` William Clodius
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08 0:00 ` William Clodius
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-10 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-09 0:00 ` William Clodius
[not found] ` <lvlo6iwws8.fsf@sulu.fl.ensco.com>
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Lance Kibblewhite
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