From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Distributed system portability
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 21:39:14 GMT
Date: 2001-07-30T21:39:14+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6uk97.11952$ar1.37575@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3B658765.8F0E0939@canal-plus.fr
In article <3B658765.8F0E0939@canal-plus.fr>, Thierry Lelegard says...
>However, even this logical content is non standard. The very first
>reason for this is the horrible "type Stream_Element is mod
>implementation-defined" in Ada.Streams. You cannot base interoperability
>on an "implementation-defined" feature.
>
>> Or is the idea of streams that one should never try to access them
>> from a non-Ada language ?
>
>Yes, for the reason above.
I'd say its a bit worse than that. You really shouldn't try to access them from
code that wasn't compiled with the same Ada compiler (unless you are *real*
careful). Even the same compiler on different platforms could give different
results.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-30 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-29 17:18 Distributed system portability Darren New
2001-07-30 8:00 ` Pascal Obry
2001-07-31 7:23 ` Frank
2001-07-31 16:35 ` Pascal Obry
2001-07-30 11:22 ` Thierry Lelegard
2001-07-30 13:05 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-30 16:12 ` Thierry Lelegard
2001-07-30 21:39 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-07-30 22:28 ` tmoran
2001-07-31 17:36 ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-31 18:15 ` tmoran
2001-07-31 18:55 ` Marin David Condic
2001-07-31 20:26 ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-31 7:44 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2001-07-30 15:57 ` Marin David Condic
2001-07-30 17:17 ` Darren New
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