From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Inspirels Ada on cortex tutorial linker issue
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 05:05:22 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2016-09-02T05:05:22-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb0f968d-00e3-4de0-b9e2-78ff1c3a92c1@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nqahie$jnv$1@dont-email.me>
On Friday, September 2, 2016 at 2:36:31 AM UTC+2, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> Nor is this an unusual experience. With only a little extra effort, it's quite
> easy to write Ada that is completely portable across compilers from different
> vendors (for a specific version of the language) and across platforms.
And I still don't see how is this Ada-specific. Both Ada and C (or C++) are defined with such a high level of abstraction, that standard-compliant code will be portable across compilers and platforms. And if you move outside of the standard (by relying on data representation, for example), the resulting mess can be the same.
> I've
> written quite a bit of it.
Then somebody else must have written the Ada code that I can see now, which is so heavily attached to the hardware (including packing of pointer values in record fields of forced sizes) that it is probably easier to rewrite it than port to any other target.
Language is a tool, you still need good engineering principles to use it properly.
--
Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com
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2016-07-23 5:23 Inspirels Ada on cortex tutorial linker issue Devin
2016-07-23 6:57 ` Simon Wright
2016-07-23 7:34 ` Devin
2016-07-23 8:07 ` Devin
2016-07-23 16:32 ` Simon Wright
2016-07-24 2:32 ` Devin
2016-07-24 7:41 ` Simon Wright
2016-07-25 4:35 ` Devin
2016-07-25 8:07 ` Simon Wright
2016-08-20 22:09 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-08-21 1:30 ` Devin
2016-08-21 1:37 ` Devin
2016-08-21 14:38 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-08-22 4:00 ` Devin
2016-08-22 11:37 ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-29 17:49 ` Nicholas Colin Paul de Gloucester
2016-08-29 21:51 ` rieachus
2016-08-30 14:55 ` Nicolas Colin Paul de Gloucester
2016-08-31 0:01 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-08-31 10:15 ` Simon Wright
2016-08-31 12:42 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-01 9:15 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2016-09-01 16:33 ` AdaMagica
2016-09-02 0:36 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-09-02 12:05 ` Maciej Sobczak [this message]
2016-09-02 12:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-09-02 15:24 ` G.B.
2016-09-02 21:33 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-03 9:20 ` G.B.
2016-09-03 13:33 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2016-09-04 15:08 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-02 13:40 ` AdaMagica
2016-09-03 11:58 ` Brian Drummond
2016-09-03 12:12 ` Björn Lundin
2016-08-30 12:33 ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-30 13:01 ` Simon Wright
2016-08-30 15:06 ` Nicolas Colin Paul de Gloucester
2016-08-31 10:34 ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-31 20:58 ` Simon Wright
2016-09-01 11:08 ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-31 12:47 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-01 0:02 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-09-01 9:03 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
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