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From: Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects'
Date: 2000/03/08
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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