From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,eb00b9b968ac2b79 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.66.74.69 with SMTP id r5mr2591620pav.12.1345562741924; Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:25:41 -0700 (PDT) Path: kg8ni7725pbc.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Shark8 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada networking (Adagio) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:25:40 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <296db66c-9246-4801-b293-c116e5c21f6b@googlegroups.com> <2ef339a5-2e40-49e9-b5dc-4bb018b93bda@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.20.190.126 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1345562741 30538 127.0.0.1 (21 Aug 2012 15:25:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:25:41 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.20.190.126; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-08-21T08:25:40-07:00 List-Id: On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 3:25:44 AM UTC-6, =C1lex R. Mosteo wrote: > Shark8 wrote: >=20 >=20 > > On Monday, August 20, 2012 2:59:00 AM UTC-6, =C1lex R. Mosteo wrote: > >>=20 >=20 > >> I'm the author and I'm pretty sure I keep the whole history in some > >> archived SVN. If you're interested I could try to dig it out. Also, > >> perhaps I could simply convert it to git and put it in github. >=20 > > Ah, that would be nice; I did get the zip from Martin though. > >=20 >=20 > >> I'm not sure how good a resource it is for learning from; I did learn = a > >> lot about blocking and non-blocking sockets when programming that (I > >> experimented with both approaches -- IIRC a stack size related thread > >> limit in Windows prompted me to abandon blocking IO in the end), but t= he > >> code more or less grew up with little foreplanning. > >=20 >=20 > > Ah, I know how that is. The thing that's bugging me about it right now = is > > the gnatpatch and runtime-configuration errors. (Still trying to figure > > them out.) >=20 > Ah, right. There was a Calendar bug in the windows GNAT version at the ti= me=20 > that caused random thread lock-ups in delays. That caused me a lot of=20 > headaches to track down; I managed with the help of people here: >=20 > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.ada/cdHjb8qqm5A/U8buGZrldhIJ I'll have to check that out. Thank you for the reference. {I also find it somewhat surprising that the Calendar would have a bug; tim= ing seems to be one of the things that Ada as-a-language put a lot of thoug= ht into. Ironically addressing a lot of the "Tony the Pony" speech on commo= n programming pitfalls.} > Also there were some other problems with unbounded strings IIRC. >=20 > I'm pretty sure that with recent Gnat versions you can dispense with the= =20 > patching of the compiler. OTOH, perhaps the code won't readily compile wi= th=20 > Gnat GPL 2012, but fixing whatever is now rejected might be easy. Hm, I'll have to give it a try. >=20 > I'm going to try to find it and put it in GitHub, and we can work from th= ere=20 > to put it in shape, if you want.=20 That'd be great / thanks!