From: Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>
Subject: Re: RISC
Date: 16 Mar 2001 20:13:41 +0100
Date: 2001-03-16T19:10:24+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86g0gd5xy2.fsf@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccofv1r65n.fsf@world.std.com
Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> writes:
> There are also a lot of things that rep clauses just can't express. Eg,
> TCP/IP protocols often have data structures defined like "a count byte,
> followed by an array of sub-records" where the count gives the number of
> sub-records, or the number of bytes including (or not including) the
> count byte itself. I would like to have a language that could describe
> that sort of thing at a reasonably high level.
For the "non including" case, a discriminated record should do the job
in Ada. (OK, it fails for more complicated stuff.)
> - Bob
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Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>
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2001-03-14 20:23 RISC chris.danx
2001-03-14 21:57 ` RISC Tucker Taft
2001-03-14 22:36 ` RISC chris.danx
2001-03-14 23:03 ` RISC Fraser Wilson
2001-03-15 1:30 ` RISC Corey Ashford
2001-03-15 9:19 ` RISC chris.danx
2001-03-15 12:37 ` RISC chris.danx
2001-03-15 13:03 ` RISC Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-03-15 18:29 ` RISC Robert A Duff
2001-03-15 14:40 ` RISC Ted Dennison
2001-03-15 14:49 ` RISC Robert A Duff
2001-03-15 17:37 ` RISC Marin David Condic
2001-03-15 18:28 ` RISC Robert A Duff
2001-03-15 19:16 ` RISC Marin David Condic
2001-03-16 8:44 ` RISC Martin Dowie
2001-03-16 14:40 ` RISC Marin David Condic
2001-03-20 10:17 ` RISC Martin Dowie
2001-03-20 14:34 ` RISC Marin David Condic
2001-03-20 15:45 ` RISC Ted Dennison
2001-03-20 16:39 ` RISC Robert A Duff
2001-03-20 18:10 ` RISC Martin Dowie
2001-03-20 18:56 ` RISC Ted Dennison
2001-03-22 9:16 ` RISC - largish (code listed) Martin Dowie
2001-03-22 9:34 ` Martin Dowie
2001-03-20 18:09 ` RISC Martin Dowie
2001-03-20 20:00 ` RISC Marin David Condic
2001-03-20 22:30 ` RISC Robert A Duff
2001-03-20 22:48 ` RISC Ted Dennison
2001-03-20 23:10 ` RISC Marin David Condic
2001-03-21 0:18 ` RISC Robert A Duff
2001-03-21 14:31 ` RISC Marin David Condic
2001-03-21 16:47 ` RISC Ted Dennison
2001-03-21 17:36 ` RISC Marin David Condic
2001-03-16 15:09 ` RISC Tucker Taft
2001-03-16 17:10 ` RISC Robert A Duff
2001-03-16 19:02 ` RISC Marin David Condic
2001-03-16 20:58 ` RISC Robert A Duff
2001-03-19 16:17 ` RISC Marin David Condic
2001-03-19 16:45 ` RISC Florian Weimer
2001-03-19 17:14 ` RISC Marin David Condic
2001-03-19 17:33 ` RISC Florian Weimer
2001-03-21 5:57 ` RISC Lao Xiao Hai
2001-03-16 22:19 ` RISC Ted Dennison
2001-03-16 19:13 ` Laurent Guerby [this message]
2001-03-16 20:30 ` RISC Robert A Duff
2001-03-16 20:51 ` RISC Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2001-03-16 18:33 ` RISC Marin David Condic
2001-03-16 20:45 ` RISC Robert A Duff
2001-03-17 1:13 ` RISC Randy Brukardt
2001-03-19 16:34 ` RISC Marin David Condic
2001-03-19 17:49 ` RISC Robert A Duff
2001-03-16 20:08 ` RISC chris.danx
2001-03-16 20:31 ` RISC Marin David Condic
2001-03-17 21:51 ` RISC Robert A Duff
2001-03-18 6:37 ` RISC Charles Hixson
2001-03-19 15:42 ` RISC Robert A Duff
2001-03-19 17:02 ` RISC Marin David Condic
2001-03-19 17:45 ` RISC Robert A Duff
2001-03-19 18:48 ` RISC Marin David Condic
2001-03-19 16:45 ` RISC Marin David Condic
2001-03-16 22:27 ` RISC chris.danx
2001-03-17 2:49 ` RISC Jeffrey Carter
2001-03-19 9:43 ` RISC Martin Dowie
2001-03-19 11:06 ` RISC chris.danx
2001-03-28 22:24 ` RISC chris.danx
2001-03-29 0:52 ` RISC Corey Ashford
2001-03-29 12:42 ` RISC John English
2001-03-22 20:11 ` RISC chris.danx
2001-03-22 20:51 ` RISC Marin David Condic
2001-03-22 21:02 ` RISC tmoran
2001-03-22 21:18 ` RISC chris.danx
2001-03-22 21:45 ` RISC Britt Snodgrass
2001-03-22 22:43 ` RISC chris.danx
2001-03-28 11:37 ` RISC chris.danx
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2001-03-16 23:25 RISC Beard, Frank
2001-03-17 11:39 ` RISC chris.danx
2001-03-29 3:12 RISC Beard, Frank
2001-03-29 7:28 ` RISC Martin Dowie
2001-03-29 12:38 ` RISC chris.danx
2001-03-29 19:07 ` RISC Chad R. Meiners
2001-03-29 17:52 RISC Beard, Frank
2001-03-30 17:31 RISC Kent Paul Dolan
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