From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 20 Jul 93 13:59:04 GMT From: ddciiny!jls@uunet.uu.net (Jonathan Schilling) Subject: Re: How does your language grow? (Follow-up on comments on ADM Tuttle comments) Message-ID: List-Id: In article eachus@spectre.mitre.org (R obert I. Eachus) writes: > Much more surprising has >been the almost total lack of implementation defined pragmas and >attributes outside of VAX Ada. How do you define "almost total lack"? Just to pick two examples, the Sun Ada native compiler for SPARC has by my count 16 implementation- defined pragmas and three implementation-defined attributes, while the DDC-I cross compiler for MIL-STD-1750A has 13 implementation-defined pragmas and one implementation-defined attribute. (By comparison, DEC Ada has 26 implementation-defined pragmas and five implementation- defined attributes, although the pragma total is somewhat inflated by having different EXPORT and IMPORT pragmas for different language entities, rather than "overloading" them.) Are there specific pragma- or attribute-based capabilities that you expected Ada compilers to have, that have never materialised? -- Jonathan Schilling DDC-I, Inc. uunet!ddciiny!jls