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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f990e7f04288e928 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: From "Re: Where are returned values stored?" References: <40bf57f5$1@news.broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <40bf57f5$1@news.broadpark.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:52:00 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1086627055 198.96.223.163 (Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:50:55 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:50:55 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1198 Date: 2004-06-07T12:52:00-04:00 List-Id: Frank wrote: > Snipped from "Re: Where are returned values stored?" : >>You may perhaps be interested to note that my design for the AdaOS kernel >>(called 'Bachar') for the IA-32 makes use of segments to help alleviate the >>problem. >>-- >>Nick Roberts > Hi! > > Im curios about what is the state for the AdaOS project? Do you have inside > information? :-) > > Frank This reminds me, that I wanted to reply to Nick's comments from before: I once worked on a Prime 50 Series platform (Primos) that was segmented. The architecture offered some advantages, but suffered from others. I don't seem to recall the problems that we ran into, but IIRC, one of them was that there was a limit on the segment size that got in the way (though I might be confusing this with the WinTel past). I did however, like the way that rings and dynamic linking worked (snapping the links). -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg