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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,fc35bf7ba6fca42d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!12.120.4.37!attcg2!ip.att.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: "new" word Date: 16 Mar 2005 07:49:15 -0600 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: <1110966980.482176.111570@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <3297984.Y1VDRVLb6y@jellix.jlfencey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1110980905 31602 192.135.80.34 (16 Mar 2005 13:48:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:48:25 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9487 Date: 2005-03-16T07:49:15-06:00 List-Id: In article , Adrian Knoth writes: > Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler 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.