Re: [announcement] SYSAPI and SYSSVC for Windows

["Ekkehard Morgenstern" <ekkehard.morgenstern@onlinehome.de>]

"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
> I've been doing nothing professionally but programming for twenty years.

Well, so you are not a professional programmer?

Anyway, I think your approach to programming in C++ is very good, altho I do 
not agree with everything for every case.

I've been programming for 22 years, and professionally for 12 years.
 
> > Well, some documents say that access types can be garbage collected by
> > the runtime system.
> 
> Only if the compiler implements it. By far the vast majority do not,
> except for implementations which target JVMs. C++ implementations could
> do the smae as well, and many programs use the Boehm conservative collector
> in just such a fashion.

Garbage collection has its pro and cons, and I'm glad that in Ada it's optional.

There are garbage collected C++ systems, like Microsoft Managed C++ for Windows.
 
> > I like writing compilers and so that will not be a major effort for me.
> 
> I will now invite the people in this newsgroup who have actually worked
> on Ada compilers to respond to this. I'll be over there banging my head
> against the wall. Holler if you need me. (Oh, and if your compiler will
> target x86 architecture, don't forget to write to Intel and AMD for the
> manuals on how to optimize code for each different version of the Pentium
> and Athlon procesors.)

You don't need to write to Intel or AMD to get that information, you can
download it from their websites. I have all of the current Intel and AMD
processor manuals.

However, for my Ada compiler, this won't matter, since it generates code for
a virtual machine of my own design. The virtual machine itself handles
the translation of the code. I will not make the effort of optimizing 
specifically for every CPU out there, only the ones that are current. For
the other CPU's I will generate acceptable code. If I can get the old
optimization guidelines for the old CPUs (some of which might still be
available on their websites), then I might take them into account.

It's all much easier than you think!
 
> > Like, a compiler might be huge for you, but for me it's just medium-scale.
> 
> Be sure to let me know when you're done.

Yes, you will know when I'm done.