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From: James Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@att.net>
Subject: Re: Typing in Ada
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 04:24:11 GMT
Date: 2004-06-17T04:24:11+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Xns950AE3710571Cjimmaureenrogers@204.127.36.1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gn12d0pk7e6hhmhr6k87hcj4olebou5hel@4ax.com

Dave Thompson <david.thompson1@worldnet.att.net> wrote in
news:gn12d0pk7e6hhmhr6k87hcj4olebou5hel@4ax.com: 

> One of the regulars on comp.lang.c, Chris Torek, likes to suggest that
> the 'struct' keyword -- which unlike 'typedef' does create a distinct
> type as far as the C compiler is concerned -- should be read as an
> acronym "STRange spelling for User Constructed Type". :-)

Yes, a C struct is the means for creating a user defined type.
It is similar to an Ada record, without all the representation
control or the possibility of discriminants. 

One important difference between Ada records and C structs is
in the creation of incomplete types. A C compiler allows the
creation of incomplete types under the assumption that the
type will be completed through the linking process, while an
Ada compiler must have all types completed at compile time.

Jim Rogers



  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-17  4:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-31 13:32 Typing in Ada Empit
2004-05-31 14:04 ` Poul-Erik Andreasen
2004-05-31 17:01 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-05-31 20:03   ` Peter C. Chapin
2004-05-31 22:56     ` tmoran
2004-06-01  1:09       ` Peter C. Chapin
2004-06-01  4:40         ` tmoran
2004-06-01 11:26           ` Peter C. Chapin
2004-06-10  3:01             ` Dave Thompson
2004-06-10  3:00         ` Dave Thompson
2004-05-31 23:22     ` Nick Roberts
2004-06-01  1:04       ` Peter C. Chapin
2004-06-01  2:29         ` Nick Roberts
2004-06-02  4:39         ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-02 15:17           ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-01  2:36       ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-01  4:27         ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-06-01  4:05           ` Hyman Rosen
     [not found]         ` <d4vnb0tepd4togdrvdrbqpok1ne6n9i2vp@4ax.com>
2004-06-01 14:36           ` Wes Groleau
2004-06-01 20:24         ` Niklas Holsti
2004-06-02  4:43           ` Wes Groleau
2004-06-02  5:28             ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-02  8:19               ` tmoran
2004-06-02 14:47               ` Wes Groleau
2004-06-02 11:26             ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-02 14:54               ` gratuitous restrictions (was:Typing in Ada) Wes Groleau
2004-06-02  5:04           ` Typing in Ada Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-01  2:14     ` David C. Hoos
2004-06-02  1:30     ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-02 10:53       ` Peter C. Chapin
2004-06-02 11:38         ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-17  2:50           ` Dave Thompson
2004-06-17  4:24             ` James Rogers [this message]
2004-06-17 12:28               ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-17 23:42                 ` James Rogers
2004-06-20 11:27                   ` Nick Roberts
2004-06-20 23:29                     ` new revision ada Brian May
2004-06-21  2:16                       ` tmoran
2004-06-21  2:34                         ` James Rogers
2004-06-22  2:16                           ` Roland Illig
2004-06-22  3:41                             ` James Rogers
2004-06-22  6:53                               ` Martin Krischik
2004-06-21 23:33                         ` Brian May
2004-06-22 20:26                           ` Simon Wright
2004-06-23  0:50                             ` Larry Elmore
2004-06-22 22:06                           ` tmoran
2004-06-21  5:31                       ` Wes Groleau
2004-06-21 12:27                       ` new revision ada (limited with, excpetion handling) Nick Roberts
2004-06-21 13:04                         ` Martin Dowie
2004-06-22 10:38                       ` new revision ada Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-22 12:45                         ` James Rogers
2004-06-22 15:17                           ` Martin Krischik
2004-06-22 16:09                             ` new revision ada (exception handling) Nick Roberts
2004-06-23  7:55                               ` Pascal Obry
2004-06-23  8:40                                 ` Martin Krischik
2004-06-23 19:33                                   ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-24  6:57                                     ` Martin Krischik
2004-06-24 21:13                                       ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-25  8:05                                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-25 17:28                                           ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-23  4:31                             ` new revision ada Brian May
2004-06-23 19:47                               ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-22 16:37                           ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-26 14:57                           ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-01  1:02 ` Typing in Ada Alexander E. Kopilovich
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2004-06-01  2:11 David C. Hoos, Sr.
2004-06-01  2:13 David C. Hoos, Sr.
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