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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,e276c1ed16429c03 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!g10g2000vbc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Mark Lorenzen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada is getting more popular! Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:04:29 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <99da01e1-af13-482c-94c8-2cd1bd572239@g10g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.163.1.105 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1286982269 9027 127.0.0.1 (13 Oct 2010 15:04:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:04:29 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g10g2000vbc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=193.163.1.105; posting-account=Srm5lQoAAAAEMX9rv2ilEKR6FDPapmSq User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; da; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:15478 Date: 2010-10-13T08:04:29-07:00 List-Id: On 13 Okt., 14:07, ramon_garcia wrote: > > - Vendor dependency: there are few vendors of Ada products. It is > neccessary in practice to use vendor extensions to write useful > software. For instance, I must depend on array accesses in GNAT > containing both the addess and the bounds of the array. In addition, I > also depend on the implementation recomendation that array'adress > points to the first element. I also need the extension > object'unrestricted_pointer. Could you please give some examples of why you need to rely on theese vendor-specific choices. Regards, - Mark L