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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: ADA compilers can reject types arbitrarily?
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:44:08 +0000
Date: 2005-11-15T06:44:08+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2iruuif5z.fsf@grendel.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrndnikpp.ish.bogus_addy@tango.mindfuq.org

Anonymous Coward <nospam@nospam.com> writes:

> Amazing.  So an ADA compiler can even reject an operational spec, and
> still be considered an ADA compiler.  ie. an ADA compiler can reject:
>
>   type my_record is record
>     my_integer : integer;
>   end record;

I don't think a compiler that rejected _that_ would have many users.

> Technically any ADA compiler can reject my composit types, and I
> have no expectation that my code will run.

Well, it's more that your code (which is not supported by the
implementation) won't get a chance to run because it won't
compile. Better than failing at run time because of misaligned data.

By the way, it's properly Ada not ADA ...



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-15  6:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-04  2:21 Default rep specs for record types - documented?? Anonymous Coward
2005-11-04  2:36 ` Steve
2005-11-04  4:11   ` Anonymous Coward
2005-11-04  5:30     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-05  3:13       ` Steve
2005-11-05  4:45         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-06 14:05           ` Steve
2005-11-06 16:08             ` Anonymous Coward
2005-11-07  7:25             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-08 13:36               ` Steve
2005-11-14  1:12             ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-14  3:03               ` Anonymous Coward
2005-11-14 18:08                 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-14 18:49                 ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-15  1:16                   ` ADA compilers can reject types arbitrarily? Anonymous Coward
2005-11-15  2:10                     ` tmoran
2005-11-15  3:12                     ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-15  6:44                     ` Simon Wright [this message]
2005-11-16  0:16                       ` Adaists Deny Acronym. (was: ADA compilers can reject types arbitrarily?) Björn Persson
2005-11-16  5:38                         ` Adaists Deny Acronym Simon Wright
2005-11-16  6:16                         ` Adaists Deny Acronym. (was: ADA compilers can reject types arbitrarily?) Samuel Tardieu
2005-11-15 12:43                     ` ADA compilers can reject types arbitrarily? Jeff Creem
2005-11-14 21:14                 ` Default rep specs for record types - documented?? Simon Wright
2005-11-04 13:26     ` Stephen Leake
2005-11-04 14:33       ` Marc A. Criley
2005-11-04 18:35         ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-11-04 20:07           ` Britt Snodgrass
2005-11-04 14:39       ` Stephen Leake
2005-11-04 15:27         ` Britt Snodgrass
2005-11-04 15:55           ` Lauri Ora
2005-11-04 21:42             ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-11-05  2:26             ` Anonymous Coward
2005-11-05  2:42               ` Frank J. Lhota
2005-11-05  3:27               ` Ed Falis
2005-11-05  3:55                 ` Anonymous Coward
2005-11-05  4:07                 ` Lauri Ora
2005-11-05 13:46                   ` Ed Falis
2005-11-05 10:14                 ` Stephen Leake
2005-11-04 16:52         ` Frank J. Lhota
2005-11-04 16:57           ` Frank J. Lhota
2005-11-04 23:27           ` tmoran
2005-11-05 10:25           ` Stephen Leake
2005-11-14  1:09             ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-05  3:33       ` Anonymous Coward
2005-11-05 10:34         ` Stephen Leake
2005-11-05 16:35           ` ADA/C interfaces: type representations uncontrollable in C Anonymous Coward
2005-11-05 16:49             ` Ed Falis
2005-11-05 18:24             ` tmoran
2005-11-09  2:12           ` 'Size can mean value size OR object size, depending Anonymous Coward
2005-11-09  3:27             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-09  4:04               ` Anonymous Coward
2005-11-05 14:27         ` Default rep specs for record types - documented?? Michael Bode
2005-11-05 16:17           ` pragma convention Anonymous Coward
2005-11-06  1:07             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-06 22:22               ` Anonymous Coward
2005-11-07  7:34                 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-05 14:39         ` Default rep specs for record types - documented?? Martin Krischik
2005-11-04  9:40   ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-04 14:36   ` Marc A. Criley
2005-11-04 17:45 ` Martin Krischik
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