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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects'
Date: 2000/03/08
Date: 2000-03-08T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8a5t40$n84$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8a5ms7$aai1@news.cis.okstate.edu

In article <8a5ms7$aai1@news.cis.okstate.edu>,
  dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org wrote:
> On 8 Mar 2000 14:05:17 GMT, Dale Pontius
<pontius@twonky.btv.MBI.com.invalid> wrote:
> >at some point? If/when that happens, how feasible would it be to
> >write a Linux kernel module/device driver in Ada?
>
> work the same. It should be no problem writting a driver/module in Ada
> - just follow all the normal rules for interfacing with C and remember
> you don't have the standard C or Ada libraries available to you.

...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.


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

-
T.E.D.

http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html


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  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 ` 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
2000-02-15  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           ` Ed Falis
2000-02-15  0:00             ` Hyman Rosen
     [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' Brian Rogoff
     [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 [this message]
2000-03-08  0:00             ` Laurent Guerby
2000-03-10  0:00             ` Tarjei T. Jensen
     [not found] ` <38A9C4ED.C75316F9@raytheon.com>
2000-02-16  0:00   ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-16  0:00 ` Windows TP (Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects') Vladimir Olensky
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