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: 103376,86ec22e070e319c0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: How do I get this to work?? Date: 1999/01/20 Message-ID: <7853rt$ic5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 434850443 References: <77vi4q$o7l$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <782rcn$kev$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36A5DB4E.CC5C88A@spam.innocon.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x4.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: Wed Jan 20 17:30:36 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-01-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <36A5DB4E.CC5C88A@spam.innocon.com>, Jeff Carter wrote: > FWIW, the first Ada compiler I used was the Rolm compiler > for the Data General Eclipse in 1984, which claimed to be > the first validated Ada-83 compiler. This machine > allocated an unheard-of (in 1984) 4 GB of virtual > memory for every process. I was told that this compiler's > Unchecked_Deallocation only set the access variable to > null without reusing the allocated memory, because no one > could ever use up 4 GB. This compiler was used only for > training and I never verified this statement. A couple of comments. That was indeed a VERY early Ada compiler (not quite the first, NYU Ada/Ed was validated before the Rolm compiler, they had certificate number 0002). Well perhaps their publicity department is clearer than I am on the difference between a compiler and an interpretor :-) It is quite believable that this very early version of the Rolm compiler behaved in the way you mention, but to extrapolate from that to actual production compilers in use from the 80's is pretty bogus, so I agree, a lot of heresay here :-) -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own