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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b860b4e8d00468ef X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!transit.news.xs4all.nl!195.241.76.212.MISMATCH!tiscali!transit1.news.tiscali.nl!dreader2.news.tiscali.nl!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada access vs C/C++ pointers and references References: From: Ludovic Brenta Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 07:19:23 +0200 Message-ID: <87657fso10.fsf@insalien.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Sf5aWiz15inztWjFkgVgt8KOG6E= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Tiscali bv NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Aug 2004 07:20:01 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.134.237.203 X-Trace: 1092892801 dreader2.news.tiscali.nl 62398 83.134.237.203:35798 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tiscali.nl Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2836 Date: 2004-08-19T07:20:01+02:00 List-Id: (Keith H Duggar) writes: > Third, if Ada does not provide arithmetic pointers do you > know if this has played any part in acceptance of Ada for > systems programming or efficiency critical applications? Ada does provide for pointer arithmetic, but the fact that one can avoid pointers altogether for most things does help with verification and certification of safety-critical software. Pointer arithmetic is usually confined to a few low-level device drivers. (I work in avionics) -- Ludovic Brenta.