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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Urgent question: malloc and ada...READ/NEW/FOLLOWUP
Date: 1998/05/05
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Joe says

<<I would have to point out that we need *portable* but *bulletproof*
  Ada95-C/C++ interfaces.  With any chosen fixed set of compilers, one can
  usually get things to work well enough.  If portability is required,
  things get much harder.  In any case, it doesn't much matter what
  theoretical portability features are claimed, as this is a particularly
  difficult and bug-ridden area.>>

Obviously the RM does not try to address C++ directly (how could it,
there was no such standard language in 1995). However, in practice you
can almost always create a C wrapper to solve this problem in a completely
portable manner.

You keep claiming that this is impossible, but it does not add to the
convincing nature of your argument to simply repeat this claim without
any proof or details. We need an example to understand what you are
talking about!

<<> We look forward to it. A list would be very instructive, but even ONE
  > clear technical answer would help get this conversation out of the rather
  > uninformative philosophical level onto a technical level.

  Doesn't seem too promising, does it?>>

Not until you cough up your promised example! We are still waiting.