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Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor
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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> 
>> One standard POSIX-Ada binding 
> 
> Impossible. Some UNIces provide some API structure members,
> while others don't, or provide something else again. Yes,
> you can dumb it down to a "standard" (or omit non-universal
> functionality), but by doing so you throw away functionality.
> I find that unacceptable.

There is a standard POSIX-Ada binding (Florist is an implementation of 
this standard) to the POSIX standard. If you want something not in this 
standard, obviously you're going to have to provide it yourself on some 
platforms. If you're on a platform that doesn't provide some of the 
functionality, then it's not a POSIX system. In neither case are you 
dealing with different versions of POSIX.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Beyond 100,000 lines of code you
should probably be coding in Ada."
P. J. Plauger
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