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: 103376,23a17bbd96d53327 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@gnat.com Subject: Re: Assembler in Ada? Date: 1999/01/27 Message-ID: <78m3e6$2so$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 437218753 References: <369C5E08.69727537@mbox5.swipnet.se> <78a32f$dbr$1@remarQ.com> <78fvjm$82t$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <78hvth$m36$1@remarQ.com> <78iho6$4d3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <78kigc$8bj$1@remarQ.com> <1999Jan26.104457.1@eisner> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x2.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 27 04:07:39 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-01-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <1999Jan26.104457.1@eisner>, Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote: > To consider a processor I do own, the standard assembly > language for Alpha is slightly different for VMS than for > DEC Unix. I would hope ACT concentrates on a language > that is source-compatible across the > operating systems. Any nominations ? That's a bit confused, probably from not knowing the structure of how gcc works. gcc generates standard format assembly language. This means that of course the assembly language support is keyed to that assembler. This is a fundamental requirement in the gcc context. Yes, it would be nice if these divergences did not happen, but gcc follows the standard even if it is non-standard :-) I incidentally definitely agree on the issue of assembler examples. The trouble is that examples can only be useful if they use an assembly language the reader knows. For example, Vladimir presents (slightly garbled) examples that are in any case completely meaningless if you do not speak ia32/unix style assembly language. What would be nice here is really comprehensive documentation for this feature across all possible architectures, but I am afraid that (a) this would be a giant tome (b) no one is going to get around to writing it (c) probably no one would read it either In practice, the documentation that is available has proved sufficient for a lot of people to successfully use this feature, especially with a little bit of help from us or others! Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own