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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,976a050e0f89277c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) Subject: Re: Urgent question: malloc and ada... Date: 1998/05/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 350972721 References: <352A79C2.15FB7483@nathan.gmd.de> <1998Apr30.180141.1@eisner> Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-05-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > Perhaps that is because the distinguished contributor lives in the real > world, and not a wishful-thinking world! In practice the definition > expressed here is a useful one, since of course it is almost always > the case that the operating system involved will have substantial > chunks written in C (probably it won't be 100% C, there will be C++, > and perhaps assembly .....) Nice to be referred to as "the distinguished contributor," But note, that in the real world I live in, I have worked on operating systems written for the most part in PL/I (Stratus VOS and Multics), and Assembler. But I have never worked on an OS written in C. (Worked on in the sense of "wrote or maintained part of the OS.") However, any modern expert who writes an operating system is going to use a C compiler for some purposes, such as device drivers. If nothing else there will be a "least common denominator" call interface to the OS that is expressed in C. That is the C compiler I had in mind, the one used to define the OS call interface. -- Robert I. Eachus with Standard_Disclaimer; use Standard_Disclaimer; function Message (Text: in Clever_Ideas) return Better_Ideas is...