Re: Urgent question: malloc and ada...READ/NEW/FOLLOWUP

[fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson)]

eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes:

>In article <6hvm8k$t3l$1@news.hal-pc.org> Jonathan Guthrie <jguthrie@brokersys.com> writes:
>
>  > How does the Ada compiler implemetor know what C compiler is used in
>  > that "particular environment in which the compiler operates"?
>  > Telepathy?
>
>    No, by the name used in the pragma.  The conventions Ada, Intrinsic,
>Fortran, C, and COBOL are defined in the RM, as are the packages
>Interfaces.C, Interfaces.COBOL, and Interfaces.Fortran. Compilers are
>allowed to add support for other languages, and in the particular case
>mentioned above, they would choose one C compiler to correspond to the
>convention C, and others could be named Gcc, VisualC, etc.  In practice,
>the compiler that corresponds to C is the one used to compile the OS.

It would also be easy to implement a command-line option or configuration
pragma to override the default meaning for the "C" convention
(e.g. by default "C" might mean "VisualC", but the user could
override it so that "C" would mean "gcc").

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