From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bf6953ee78ab08b0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-16 10:25:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Javier Miranda Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 1.0) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:21:59 +0000 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: References: <3dfcc23e$0$305$bed64819@news.gradwell.net> <5ad0dd8a.0212160808.c281c0@posting.google.com> Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1040063103 40113 137.194.161.2 (16 Dec 2002 18:25:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:25:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31901 Date: 2002-12-16T18:21:59+00:00 wojtek@power.com.pl wrote: >>In article , >> Javier Miranda writes: >> >> >>> I am glad to announce version 1.0 of my free book on the GNAT >>>Run-Time. It is already available at: >>> >>> > >Javier, > >Thank you very much for this book. Although I am using it only to >alleviate my pathological curiosity of how Ada works internally, the >value of your work, not only for this application, is enormous! > > Wojtek, The effort invested in writing the book has been also enormous! The only references I had were the GNAT sources and the papers found in WEB written by professor Ted Baker (FSU), some of them now out-of-date. In addition to the technical document, I also had to add the hyper-links to the Run-Time sources. In the beta versions I initially did all the work by hand (a lot of work!). In this version I have writen some scripts which facititate to me this work. One of the main benefits of the free technology is that we can learn a lot from it (at least I did!). In the case of Ada, GNAT is an excellent compiler which gives many possibilities for research and teaching (not only about Ada but also about POSIX and, in general, Software Enginneering). I assume the book has bugs (and things to improve). From here I request help to have up-to-date documents which give details to a big community of researchers and students which can also learn from it. Thanks for your comments ! --- Javier -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- A Detailed Description of the GNU Ada Run-Time (J.Miranda, 2002) Free book available at: http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda ----------------------------------------------------------------