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From: ak@muc.de
Subject: Re: C/C++ cheaper than Ada?? how? Re: Ada 200X
Date: 1998/07/14
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Date: 1998-07-14T00:00:00+00:00
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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