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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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  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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