From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,958ed45cc4906b53 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-30 14:39:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B644557.C599A03C@san.rr.com> <3B654382.B885CE20@canal-plus.fr> <3B658765.8F0E0939@canal-plus.fr> Subject: Re: Distributed system portability Message-ID: <6uk97.11952$ar1.37575@www.newsranger.com> X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:39:14 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 21:39:14 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10788 Date: 2001-07-30T21:39:14+00:00 List-Id: 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. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com