* TCP/IP with GNAT
@ 1997-01-07 0:00 Gabriel Emerson
1997-01-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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From: Gabriel Emerson @ 1997-01-07 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hello,
I have been programming in several languages for the past several
years, and seem to be grabbing whatever is closest lately. I think I
have finally found a language I can warm up to with Ada. I am running
GNAT 3.05 at home on a Linux ELF system, and will be installing it on my
NT machine at work as well. I need to write utilities from time to time
that need socket support, but I am having trouble finding this support in
the GNAT libraries.
As a military-grade programming language, it would seem to me that GNAT
should have cross-platform socket support. Can anyone point me in the
right direction here? Thanks!
-Gabriel Emerson
<geme@baraboo.com>
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* Re: TCP/IP with GNAT
1997-01-07 0:00 TCP/IP with GNAT Gabriel Emerson
@ 1997-01-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-01-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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From: Larry Kilgallen @ 1997-01-08 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article <MPLANET.32d27263geme989681@news.alpha.net>, geme@baraboo.com (Gabriel Emerson) writes:
> As a military-grade programming language, it would seem to me that GNAT
> should have cross-platform socket support. Can anyone point me in the
> right direction here? Thanks!
I am sure someone who knows more about it will tell you where to find
some bindings. I wanted to point out that multi-platform TCP/IP
support is not necessarily going to be transparent unless you stick
to a formal specification like Posix. I hear that even some Unix
systems have differences and an alternate API than "sockets". I
know on VMS there are 5 different sources of TCP/IP implementations,
each slightly different.
I use the term "multi-platform" rather than "cross-platform"
because I keep running into discussions of "cross-platform"
where the author means just two platforms. Which two is
most often Macintosh and Microsoft, neatly omitting the
interests of a lot of folk who contribute to c.l.a.
Larry Kilgallen
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* Re: TCP/IP with GNAT
1997-01-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
@ 1997-01-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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From: Robert Dewar @ 1997-01-08 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article <MPLANET.32d27263geme989681@news.alpha.net>, geme@baraboo.com (Gabrie
l Emerson) writes:
> As a military-grade programming language, it would seem to me that GNAT
> should have cross-platform socket support. Can anyone point me in the
> right direction here? Thanks!
One direction to look at is the distribution annex (RM annex E) which is
fully supported by GNAT. You can use this in conjunction with GLADE, an
implementation of distribution support which uses sockets, and handles
heterogenous cross-platform communication between Ada partions running
on separate machines. For more information on GNAT and GLADE send email
to sales@gnat.com.
Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies
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