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From: Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects'
Date: 2000/03/08
Date: 2000-03-08T19:55:40+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86n1o9p6yp.fsf@ppp-98-137.villette.club-internet.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8a5t40$n84$1@nnrp1.deja.com

Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> ...that is, interfacing C to Ada. For instance, you'll probably need to
> take steps to make sure that no elaboration code is needed, or that the
> elaboration entry point gets called on or before the first invocation.

GNAT provides configuration pragma to check this (no run time and no
elaboration).

> If device drivers written in Ada started popping up, folks might start
> to take notice of that odd "Ada" language...

The Linux kernel is written in C (and Asm). Prototyping a Linux driver
in Ada could be a very interesting project, but for the sake of the
Linux project, the real driver ought to be contributed to the kernel
effort in C and C only.

--LG




  reply	other threads:[~2000-03-08  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-02-15  0:00 Win2000 has 63,000 'defects' Gautier
2000-02-15  0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-15  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-15  0:00     ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-15  0:00       ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-15  0:00       ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-15  0:00         ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-15  0:00           ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-15  0:00           ` Ed Falis
     [not found]             ` <RUkq4.1243$dw3.69085@news.wenet.net>
2000-02-15  0:00               ` Dang! (was Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects') Mike Silva
2000-02-17  0:00                 ` Preben Randhol
2000-02-17  0:00                   ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-15  0:00             ` Win2000 has 63,000 'defects' Hyman Rosen
     [not found]           ` <150220001931201946%emery@grebyn.com>
2000-02-17  0:00             ` Dale Pontius
     [not found]               ` <1e66z6d.1a9fzdvtbw6t2N%herwin@gmu.edu>
2000-02-19  0:00                 ` Nick Roberts
2000-02-19  0:00               ` Joe Wisniewski
2000-02-21  0:00                 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-04  0:00                   ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-03-06  0:00                     ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-06  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-07  0:00                         ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-07  0:00                       ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-07  0:00                         ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-03-08  0:00                           ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-17  0:00       ` Preben Randhol
2000-02-16  0:00   ` Gautier
2000-02-17  0:00   ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-07  0:00     ` Mike Dimmick
2000-03-07  0:00       ` Brian Rogoff
2000-03-08  0:00       ` Dale Pontius
2000-03-08  0:00         ` David Starner
2000-03-08  0:00           ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-08  0:00             ` Laurent Guerby [this message]
2000-03-10  0:00             ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-15  0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-15  0:00   ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-15  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
     [not found]     ` <38A9C619.790950B0@quadruscorp.com>
2000-02-15  0:00       ` Keith Thompson
2000-02-17  0:00   ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-17  0:00     ` Gautier
2000-02-16  0:00 ` Windows TP (Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects') Vladimir Olensky
     [not found] ` <38A9C4ED.C75316F9@raytheon.com>
2000-02-16  0:00   ` Win2000 has 63,000 'defects' Samuel T. Harris
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