From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Tasking differences
Date: 2000/07/13
Date: 2000-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8klb4b$2ml$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: n3ZhsJT3sddL@eisner.decus.org
In article <n3ZhsJT3sddL@eisner.decus.org>,
Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) wrote:
> Or ensure your tools provide it. The DEC Ada Runtime Library
> is on the VMS Listings kit. There are calls to lock and
> unlock file variables made during file operations. Whether
> those calls are perfect is certainly less tested than whether
> 1 + 1 = 2.
I disagree with this advice. Yes, you can often get away with
erroneous programs because they do the "right thing". But even
in a case like this where you "know" your compiler does the
right thing, you are casually creating highly non-portable
incorrect Ada code. A lot of trouble in porting to Ada 95 turns
out to be this kind of problem coding.
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2000-07-12 0:00 ` Tasking differences Robert Dewar
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-07-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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2000-07-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
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