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From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: System calls - GNAT library vs. direct bindings
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 21:07:50 +0100
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Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> writes:

> In other words - the focus for evaluation should go elsewhere.
> Performance? Maintainability? Some other factors?

Our compiler is GNAT, and we develop and unit test on Windows, the
target is VxWorks on PowerPC.

We decided that GNAT.Sockets was perfectly OK for our needs (that
doesn't mean we think it's perfect) and that we had enough to do
developing our application without doing a socket library as well.

AdaSockets wasn't really an option given that GNAT already has a
library. It would have been yet another library to justify to the
technical authority.