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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> Ada doesn't out of the box support any sort of hetrogeneous
> partitioning (the assumption is that all of the processors are
> similar) and if your implementation provides some it is doing so
> outside of Ada. (That is, if you have partitions with different native
> byte orders communicating, you are trying to do something Ada was not
> designed for.)

Looking at
http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05aarm/html/AA-E.html,
(6) leaves it up to the implementation whether the distributed system
must be homogeneous.

However, (7) [Note 1] requires the impementation to support
configuration changes without recompilation, which strikes me (as an
interested bystander) as a very demanding requirement and one I would
have thought potential users would be able--if reluctantly--to do
without.

Are Notes normative?