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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: question re Ada equivalent of C function
Date: 1998/02/22
Date: 1998-02-22T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980222090549.16250B-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.888117391@merv


On 21 Feb 1998, Robert Dewar wrote:
> This may be self-explanatory, but has nothing at all to do with the inp
> and outp routines, which are accesses to the IO/space (and result in
> generation of IN/OUT instructions). Brian was mislead here by the
> rather confusing wording of the original question.

Yes, I should have asked for clarification. I mapped the question to 
"How do you read and write to integer valued addresses in Ada" which 
isn't at all what was being asked. 

> Note that a C programmer can do this kind of reading directly from a 
> memory address even more easily than an Ada programmer, and certainly
> does not need library routines for doing it :-) :-)

That should have been a clue! 

Well David, as you can see free advice is worth every penny!

-- Brian






  reply	other threads:[~1998-02-22  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-02-21  0:00 question re Ada equivalent of C function David Fisher
1998-02-21  0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-21  0:00   ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-02-21  0:00     ` David Fisher
1998-02-22  0:00       ` Simon Wright
1998-02-22  0:00         ` Simon Wright
1998-02-22  0:00       ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-02-22  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22  0:00           ` Andi Kleen
1998-02-21  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22  0:00     ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1998-02-22  0:00   ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-22  0:00     ` frc
1998-02-21  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-21  0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1998-02-22  0:00   ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-22  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-22  0:00   ` frc
1998-02-22  0:00     ` Linux/POSIX packages for GNAT Markus Kuhn
1998-02-22  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23  0:00         ` Andi Kleen
1998-02-22  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23  0:00             ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-23  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23  0:00         ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-23  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23  0:00             ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-24  0:00               ` question re Ada equivalent of C function Dale Stanbrough
1998-02-22  0:00       ` Linux/POSIX packages for GNAT Andi Kleen
1998-02-22  0:00         ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-02-23  0:00           ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-23  0:00             ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-03-05  0:00             ` Testing exception handlers James M. Darlack
1998-02-22  0:00         ` Linux/POSIX packages for GNAT Markus Kuhn
1998-02-22  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22  0:00   ` question re Ada equivalent of C function Robert Dewar
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