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: 103376,751584f55705ddb7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: john@assen.demon.co.uk (John McCabe) Subject: Re: Ada is almost useless in embedded systems Date: 1996/02/19 Message-ID: <824761057.18193@assen.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140133998 x-nntp-posting-host: assen.demon.co.uk references: <823906039.22113@assen.demon.co.uk> <823965654.4500@assen.demon.co.uk> <824165619.14894@assen.demon.co.uk> <824332550.2485@assen.demon.co.uk> <312609D9.4E6F@flash.net> <824684479.9342@assen.demon.co.uk> newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-02-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote: >John says >"As far as K&RII is concerned, in the section in the back with the >annotations it explains the purpose of the volatile qualifier as being >to ensure that the compiler doesn't optimize e.g. redundant >assignments etc on a particular object." >John, get a copy of the ANSI standard if you want to discuss things at >this level. K&RII is not a full accurate description of the standard (nor >does it pretend to be!) I know that and I will try to get hold of the ANSI standard, however K&RII contains a summary of the standard with annotations explaining the reasoning behind some of the features and to this end it is very useful. >Any serious C programmer should (a) have a copy of the ANSI standard and >(b) know their way around it. >The same of course is true for Ada programmers. >I am not saying that people should learn the languages from the standard, >that's asking too much, but you should learn to use it as a reference, >since it is the only authoritative source for detailed semantic information >in both cases. Very true. Best Regards John McCabe