From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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: <dewar.888162321@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1998Feb21.194544.1@eisner
Larry said
<<> What are the Ada equivalents of the C functions, inp and outp, used to
> read a byte from or send one to a memory address?
Speaking as someone who learned Ada on my own, let me suggest that you
avoid the search for "do xyz like language abc" and deal with Ada as
a language unto itself.
>>
Though this is generally a reasonable position, I don't see how it applies
here. The question was how to read and write I/O ports on the PC (I agree
it was asked in a somewhat confusing manner). That seems a perfectly
reasonable question ...
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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 ` Corey Ashford
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-22 0:00 ` frc
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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 ` 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
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Linux/POSIX packages for GNAT Andi Kleen
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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
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