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=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,b6d862eabdeb1fc4 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "John B. Matthews" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used? Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 15:50:36 -0400 Organization: The Wasteland Message-ID: References: <4bfbdd95$0$6776$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: LQJtZWzu+iKlBROuDg+IUg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11985 Date: 2010-05-25T15:50:36-04:00 List-Id: In article , Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote: > Le Tue, 25 May 2010 18:24:31 +0200, Nomen Nescio a > écrit: > > It depends much on the platform. On UNIX, everything was > > unquestionably written in C, on IBM, unquestionably in assembler. > > Other platforms, I don't know. > At least, the Windows ABI is a C ABI, except for calling convention, > which use the “invoked/callee clean the stack” of Pascal and the > “parameters pushed right to left” of C (the calling convention > defined by the Windows 32 ABI is a funny mix). Early versions of Windows [1] may have been influenced by an association with Apple's original Macintosh OS, which specified Pascal calling conventions [2] in the API, "Inside Macintosh" [3]. Bindings for an early version of GNAT on Mac OS 9 were translated from the corresponding Pascal interface specifications [4]. [1] [2] [3] [4] -- John B. Matthews trashgod at gmail dot com