Re: Assembler in Ada?

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Richard Kenner wrote in message <78huri$o0i$1@news.nyu.edu>...
>In article <78hj3k$2tn$1@remarQ.com> "news.oxy.com"
<Vladimir_Olensky@oxy.com> writes:
>>But everything in your hands. Just include this manual  into public GNAT
>>distribution and then every serious GNAT user will have that manual at
hand.
>>In my previous message I just wanted to point out that that the GNAT
>>documentation set is insufficient:
>>"ALL THE REFERENCIES FROM ANY PIECE OF THE SYSTEM
>>DOCUMENTATION SHOULD BE RESOLVED WITHIN THE SET OF MANUALS THAT COMES WITH
>>THE GIVEN SYSTEM. Otherwise the documentation does not work."
>
>You also need a manual for the assembler and the architecture of the CPU
>in order to use machine code insertions.  Are you proposing those
>be included as well?

There is no need to exaggerate things.
It is clear from the original Thomas Larsson question what we are talking
about.

People that want to know how to use assembler with GNAT already know
assembler itself and the architecture of the CPU. They want to have the
answer to the specific question - how this is implemented in GNAT.  ACT
should help them providing self contained documentation set.
People that do not know Assembler will never ever think of that.
So I do not think there is any need to include such kind of things.
There are a lot of books and online documentation on that issue.



Regards,

Vladimir Olensky
(vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com)
(Vladimir_Olensky@oxy.com)
Telecommunication specialist,
Occidental C.I.S. Service, Inc. ( www.oxy.com )
Moscow,
Russia.