Re: "new" word

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <slrnd3g58c.r83.adi@ppc201.mipool.uni-jena.de>, Adrian Knoth <adi@thur.de> writes:
> Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <nntp-2005-03@t-domaingrabbing.de> wrote:
> 
> [new via malloc of libc]
>> so why should one write an Ada specific memory allocator that
> 
> To get rid of libc, C and all this? ;) A native kernel interface
> would be nice to eliminate possible implementation errors in libc.
> 
> On the other hand as far as I can see there is no binary representation
> of the linux-kernel, in other words, you'll need to dynamically
> adapt the Ada memory layout to the corresponding kernel (+compiler).
> 
> Another way would be to specify the Kernel-ABI, but I don't expect
> this to happen earlier than Hurd ;)
> 
> AdaOS would probably come along with a well-defined ABI and no

Meanwhile, other operating systems already have that.