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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.13.223.84 with SMTP id i81mr7327257ywe.9.1472647378271; Wed, 31 Aug 2016 05:42:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.26.54 with SMTP id a51mr821528ote.0.1472647378228; Wed, 31 Aug 2016 05:42:58 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!c52no12127421qte.1!news-out.google.com!n186ni1173ith.0!nntp.google.com!i184no32971itf.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 05:42:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <114c0223-e914-4a5c-b533-d1b924895181@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=165.225.80.105; posting-account=bMuEOQoAAACUUr_ghL3RBIi5neBZ5w_S NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.225.80.105 References: <24d4ffc3-3915-4102-96ae-68d11d881443@googlegroups.com> <2efe4d01-4cd4-4aea-bc54-98ea5f26ec8a@googlegroups.com> <2cf07aa6-9cbb-44bc-8042-601c57c85457@googlegroups.com> <328fa4a3-6215-4101-835a-7eaf7ed72a8c@googlegroups.com> <1d62cc93-324a-4c87-b9d3-67c24cb54c5f@googlegroups.com> <114c0223-e914-4a5c-b533-d1b924895181@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <9ee99ad0-2fc5-47d3-bd2e-6f418f23a46a@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Inspirels Ada on cortex tutorial linker issue From: Maciej Sobczak Injection-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 12:42:58 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 2510 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2649672017 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:31656 Date: 2016-08-31T05:42:57-07:00 List-Id: On Monday, August 29, 2016 at 11:51:36 PM UTC+2, riea...@comcast.net wrote: > All in all, much, much better than other languages where moving an applic= ation from one compiler to another for the same target can take weeks. Sorry, but this argument is as wrong as it is frequently repeated. If you move Ada to another compiler, you can be sure that your gnatmake wil= l not work anymore. And then it will take weeks to configure the new tool. Similarly, I can see people arguing that Ada is more portable than "other l= anguages" (meaning C), because they never move outside of GNAT. If you don'= t change the compiler, then Ada and "other languages" are similarly portabl= e. There is nothing magic in Ada, it is a single toolchain that people are = attached to (for whatever reason), that makes their code kind of portable o= r stable. --=20 Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com