From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Can someone explain this to me please?
Date: 1999/08/06
Date: 1999-08-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ofc8i$lf9$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: rqm730dlkur11@corp.supernews.com
In article <rqm730dlkur11@corp.supernews.com>,
"J. Marshall" <a_revelation@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am a C programmer, recently assigned to an Ada project due to staff
> problems here.
Welcome to the light side of the force. :-)
> The project, originally built in 1492 using Verdix on a VAX, it is now
Hmmm. I guess Columbus' crew had to do something during that long voyage
across the Atlantic.
> being ported to Green Hills AdaMULTI version 1.8.9 running on a SunOS
> host, for a VMEbus embedded target running VxWorks.
> Example of some of the "old" code used...
>
> COMMAND_REG_PTR :
> COMMAND_REG_PTR_TYPE :=
> TO_CMD_PTR( SYSTEM.ADDRESS'ref( BOARD_CONFIGURATION ) );
>
> ..to which the compiler responds with
>
> UNRECOGNIZED ATTRIBUTE "ref"
"'ref" was a compiler-specific attribute for the VADS compilers. It
should be described in detail in appendix F of your Verdix compiler
documentation. I highly suggest reading that.
To help much more, we'd probably need to see what the type of
"BOARD_CONFIGURATION" is, and how "COMMAND_REG_PTR_TYPE" is defined.
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1999-08-06 0:00 Can someone explain this to me please? J. Marshall
1999-08-06 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1999-08-07 0:00 ` David Kristola
1999-08-09 0:00 ` J. Marshall
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