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=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,78a1af350f4cf4b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ted Dennison Subject: Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects' Date: 2000/03/08 Message-ID: <8a5t40$n84$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 594738148 References: <38A989B7.2D4D6B56@maths.unine.ch> <38AC41FE.73461614@earthlink.net> <952459361.11185.0.nnrp-12.d4e5bde1@news.demon.co.uk> <8a5mmt$pio$2@news.btv.ibm.com> <8a5ms7$aai1@news.cis.okstate.edu> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x26.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Mar 08 15:54:43 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDtedennison Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 2000-03-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <8a5ms7$aai1@news.cis.okstate.edu>, dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org wrote: > On 8 Mar 2000 14:05:17 GMT, Dale Pontius 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 Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.