From: ak@muc.de
Subject: Re: C/C++ cheaper than Ada?? how? Re: Ada 200X
Date: 1998/07/14
Date: 1998-07-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3btqs39lg.fsf@fred.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1998Jul13.192027.1@eisner
kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> In article <dewar.900353937@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>
> > As for "don't admit programs which have runtime systems". There is nothing
> > about Ada that requires that every Ada program needs a runtime system. Indeed,
> > GNAT provides a capability, which we call GNORT (GNAT with No RUntime) that
> > does what it says. Allows the compilation of programs with absolutely no
> > runtime. Obviously this means that there are restrictions in the subset
> > that can be used,
>
> Not so obvious to some of us. Please elaborate.
I guess all features related to tasking (protected types, the task type)
are gone. Exceptions need moderate run time system support, so maybe they
are gone too (?)
-Andi
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-07-12 0:00 C/C++ cheaper than Ada?? how? Re: Ada 200X Sam Harbaugh, Palm Bay, Florida
1998-07-13 0:00 ` Dr Richard A. O'Keefe
1998-07-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-07-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-07-14 0:00 ` ak [this message]
1998-07-14 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-07-14 0:00 ` GNORT Markus Kuhn
1998-07-14 0:00 ` GNORT Robert Dewar
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