From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Help with Atomic_Components and whole array assignment
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 05:33:56 GMT
Date: 2001-02-01T05:33:56+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <95asg5$s08$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3A7886A7.F1BB5513@averstar.com
In article <3A7886A7.F1BB5513@averstar.com>,
Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com> wrote:
> I just bemoan anything that forces one to start using machine
> code to write a device driver. I know that 25 years ago Unix
> was one of the first operating systems to have device drivers
> written in something other than assembly code. (I know it
> was
> not *the* first, given Multics, etc.) If 25 years
> later I find we have to drop back to assembly code in Ada,
> I would be quite disappointed, and believe we messed up the
> language definition somewhere.
As I noted before, device drivers often require very specific
instructions to be issued to the hardware. This is WAY beyond
what can be required in the language definition.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-22 11:22 Help with Atomic_Components and whole array assignment r_c_chapman
2001-01-22 12:51 ` Stuart Palin
2001-01-22 14:16 ` mark_lundquist
2001-01-22 16:09 ` Pat Rogers
2001-01-22 16:29 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-22 19:52 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-01-30 15:54 ` Tucker Taft
2001-01-30 18:20 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-31 5:08 ` DuckE
2001-01-31 5:57 ` Robert Dewar
2001-02-01 3:31 ` DuckE
2001-02-02 21:38 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-02 23:08 ` Robert Dewar
2001-02-03 1:39 ` tmoran
2001-01-22 16:21 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-22 16:39 ` r_c_chapman
2001-01-30 15:57 ` Tucker Taft
2001-01-30 18:26 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-30 21:30 ` Simon Wright
2001-02-01 6:11 ` Robert Dewar
2001-02-06 0:32 ` Richard Kenner
2001-02-06 3:15 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-31 10:09 ` Rod Chapman
2001-01-31 21:41 ` Tucker Taft
2001-02-01 5:33 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2001-02-01 9:42 ` Rod Chapman
2001-02-01 18:10 ` Robert Dewar
2001-02-01 13:14 ` SPARK flow analysis (was Help with Atomic_Components and whole array assignment) Stuart Palin
2001-02-01 23:38 ` Help with Atomic_Components and whole array assignment Nick Roberts
2001-02-02 3:45 ` Robert Dewar
2001-02-07 21:40 ` Nick Williams
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