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From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of
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Date: 7 Aug 2001 07:04:39 -0500
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In article <hPKb7.26397$B37.531734@news1.rdc1.bc.home.com>, kaz@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku) writes:

> Does Ada even give you a type that is guaranteed to be the same
> as the type int of the predominant C compiler of the same platform
> as the language implementation?

Please tell us the C type that corresponds to the type Integer of the
predominant Ada compiler on the platform.

For that matter, please list the other languages to which your C
compiler provides built-in interfacing, as Ada does for C, Fortran
and Cobol (i.e., portably).

> How do you *portably* declare, in Ada, a record type that 
> is precisely equivalent to POSIX struct termios from <termios.h>?

That is fairly impossible when porting to a system that does not have
POSIX.  I am sure we could all learn from the C technique for doing this.