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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-08 18:45:49 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcomsv!telesoft!kst From: kst@alsys.com (Keith Thompson) Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Message-ID: Originator: kst@pulsar Sender: news@alsys.com (USENET News Admin @flash) Organization: Alsys, San Diego, CA, USA References: <3bcntp$dgj@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> <3bmb4r$9kc@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> <3bo4il$3lb@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <3btgfs$m8c@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <3c6ofm$50v@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 01:50:13 GMT Date: 1994-12-09T01:50:13+00:00 List-Id: In <3c6ofm$50v@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > Keith, the array conversion case is really not a special one. In general > an array conversion may involve a massive and possibly complex copy, and > most compilers will just generate a loop to do the copy, which handles > all possible cases, including the swapping of indices. You're right, of course; converting between index-swapped array types shouldn't be any more difficult than converting between packed and unpacked array types (once you've implemented index-swapped array types in the first place). I knew that -- I just wanted to see who was paying attention. Yeah, there's the ticket. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@alsys.com TeleSoft^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Alsys, Inc. 10251 Vista Sorrento Parkway, Suite 300, San Diego, CA, USA, 92121-2718 /user/kst/.signature: I/O error (core dumped)