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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,94bac711cf2950f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-26 07:13:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Newbie wanna Ada Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:30:20 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9rbohe$dvv$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3BD87B95.2000703@maciejsobczak.com> <87k7xj9t97.fsf@chiark.greenend.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1004103022 14335 136.170.200.133 (26 Oct 2001 13:30:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Oct 2001 13:30:22 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15245 Date: 2001-10-26T13:30:22+00:00 List-Id: Welllllll....... Let's be careful not to overstate the case. In porting between a Sun Unix platform and a Windows platform, I have experienced some byte sex problems, so if not designed properly, there *can* be some difficulty with porting. With different compilers, there might be problems with sizes for standard data types between platforms, although I don't recall ever experiencing those directly for workstation ports. Clearly, if one connects to platform-specific features, there will be problems with porting. Or if one relies on compiler-specific packages, there will potentially be porting problems. It isn't purely automatic. Having said that, I can still testify that for command line oriented programs, I have accomplished ports between Unix/Windows/VMS using the Gnat compiler and it pretty much degenerated to a recompile of the sources. But you *do* have to take some care in the original design to make sure you are accounting for machine dependencies. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Matthew Woodcraft" wrote in message news:87k7xj9t97.fsf@chiark.greenend.org.uk... > > Nothing imaginary about Windows Ada compilers. If you write something > with Gnat on Un*x, it will run on Gnat for Windows unless you got into > OS-specific stuff. >