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From: Harry Tanovich <harryt@gte.net>
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost
Date: 1999/04/13
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Robert Dewar wrote:

> In article <7en7kg$o9d@drn.newsguy.com>,
>   Mich@western_world_somehwere wrote:
> > Do you think it is trivial to write a fully working Ada
> > posix binding? by saying just go read a book to do it,
> > shows that you really do not know what is involved here.
> > Have a look at the current Ada binding posix code just to
> > see what is there. Remember, you have to implement all
> > the posix standard, not just 5 easy little functions.
>
> First of all one thing to realize is that a *thin* binding
> to Posix is trivial. Indeed I would guess that the SGI
> binding generator would automatically get you 98% or more
> of the way there, and even if you had to do it by hand,
> it would not be more than a week's work.

What is the "SGI binding generator"?