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: 103376,7d1a6bfc6489c17b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-09-07 05:35:08 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-east!supernews.com!news-feed.riddles.org.uk!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!chnws02.mediaone.net!chnws05.ne.mediaone.net!24.128.8.202!typhoon.ne.mediaone.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Subject: Re: exiting a bloc From: Ed Falis Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: <39B15EA8.88DB58AB@netcourrier.com> <8orprn$b46$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39B532CB.73D359F8@ix.netcom.com> <39B5A8B0.56D674C6@telepath.com> <39B6114B.2929FA58@amsjv.com> <39B64E94.F081DCAB@telepath.com> <8p6bra$g6j$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39B72109.89DFAB8C@telepath.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Pineapple News 0.8.2 [SKYLAB BETA], BeOS (Intel) 5.0.3 X-Program-URL: http://www.concentric.net/~brunsona/pineapplenews.html Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 12:34:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.218.121.133 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mediaone.net X-Trace: typhoon.ne.mediaone.net 968330099 24.218.121.133 (Thu, 07 Sep 2000 08:34:59 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 08:34:59 EDT Organization: Road Runner Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:538 Date: 2000-09-07T12:34:59+00:00 List-Id: Ah, now it becomes clear. That was the old "SMART" (Small Ada Run-Time) that was packaged as an option with 68K and X86 targeted cross-compilers. The analogy to SPARK may have come up because it was used as the basis of a safety certification package that could be incorporated into customers' materials. - Ed Ted Dennison wrote: > Ed Falis wrote: > >> I suspect Ted meant SPARC. I never saw one for SPARK while I was > there. > I suppose confusion on that point is a disticnt possibility, as it was > over > 10 years ago, and it happened to be hosted on a SPARC box (targeted > to a > Motorolla 68020). I went looking for info on the compiler, but it > apparently > no longer exists. There isn't even any info in the 83 validation list > on it. > But I guess that shouldn't suprise me, since it was a subset of Ada. > > But I do distictly remember the topic comming up with Thompson in > relation > to the compiler's feature set. Perhaps what I'm remembering was some > Thompson sales guy comparing it to SPARK (aka: lying). Or perhaps I'm > just > hallucinating. :-) > > I went looking for some SPARK info on the web, and I can tell right > away > that the compiler I used had more Ada features than SPARK seems to. > For > instance, it *did* have acces types, just no allocator or > Unchecked_Deallocation. It didn't have tasking. But I don't remember > it > having anything like SPARK's "Mandatory Annotations". > > -- > T.E.D. > > Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com Work - > mailto:dennison@ssd.fsi.com > WWW - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html ICQ - 10545591 > >