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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: dewar@gnat.com Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/15 Message-ID: <77mavc$6vf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 432731894 References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369CBAED.20BE91CA@pwfl.com> <77j34t$b11@agora.dmz.khoral.com> <77l9dt$a8n$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x3.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Jan 15 03:00:02 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-01-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <77l9dt$a8n$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dennison@telepath.com wrote: > Fourtunately Ada compilers for the PC platform do *not* > exhibit this behavior. However they do tend to have the > drawback that you still have to buy Visual C++ to do > serious development. Microsoft doesn't make their linker > available any other way, and noone's ballsy enough to > reverse engineer it. This is misleading information. GNAT for NT does indeed provide a loader that can build and communicate with DLL's built by the Microsoft linker, and the use of the Microsoft linker is not required at all for building Ada programs using GNAT. Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own