Re: NYU ADA QUESTION!!!

[pipex!demon!cix.compulink.co.uk!sjwright@uunet.uu.net (Simon Wright)]

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Kevin V. Sobilo (sobi0268@mary.cs.fredonia.edu) wrote:
> 
>  I am trying to use NYU Ada for a project to create a set of 
> facilities or packages to allow TCP/IP programming in Ada.  We wish
> to provide some nice facilities to program concurrent network
> applications etc... Well, NYU Ada (adaed) doesnt seem to implement
> UNCHECKED_CONVERSION or SYSTEM packages.... Can anyone tell me if
> this is true???? 

The source of System, Text_Io, ... is in the file src/predef.ada.
Unfortunately the text of Unchecked_Conversion is ..

generic
   type SOURCE is limited private;
   type TARGET is limited private;
function UNCHECKED_CONVERSION(S : SOURCE) return TARGET;
function UNCHECKED_CONVERSION(S : SOURCE) return TARGET is
NOT_USED_ANYWAY: TARGET;
begin
   raise PROGRAM_ERROR;
   return NOT_USED_ANYWAY;
end;

.. so I guess there's some work to do there. Obviously the body needs to
be implemented in the host language :-)

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Simon Wright
Ferranti International, Defence Systems Integration