Re: Ada 0x Wish List

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

"Peter Richtmyer" <pmr@efortress.com> writes:

> 2) In a subroutine, would like to be able to declare variables that
> are "persistent", like C "static" variables and only used by the one
> subroutine.

This feature wouldn't interoperate with tasking, so I think it's a bad
idea.

> 3) I would like "portable" representation specs. Regardless of the
> endian-ness of the machine, would like an option (that is required
> to be implemented for all compilers) so we can write rep specs once
> and be able to use them on any computer. (Would also like the compilers
> to continue to support Ada95 rep specs).

It's hard to imagine that this is really possible.  However, integer
types whose in-memory or stream representation is guaranteed to be
little endian or big endian would certainly be helpful.