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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Inspirels Ada on cortex tutorial linker issue
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 17:36:30 -0700
Date: 2016-09-01T17:36:30-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nqahie$jnv$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <91322cd6-710a-424c-851e-9b5eb013e8a1@googlegroups.com>

On 09/01/2016 09:33 AM, AdaMagica wrote:
>
> I re-hosted several million lines of airborne embedded Ada code to different
> hardware (big endian to little endian) with compilers from different
> manufacturers (Ada 83 to Ada 95/2005) for use in full scale flight
> simulators. And to my big surprise, only very few pieces of code had to be
> touched.

Nor is this an unusual experience. With only a little extra effort, it's quite 
easy to write Ada that is completely portable across compilers from different 
vendors (for a specific version of the language) and across platforms. I've 
written quite a bit of it.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"To Err is human, to really screw up, you need C++!"
Stéphane Richard
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-02  0:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-23  5:23 Inspirels Ada on cortex tutorial linker issue Devin
2016-07-23  6:57 ` Simon Wright
2016-07-23  7:34   ` Devin
2016-07-23  8:07     ` Devin
2016-07-23 16:32       ` Simon Wright
2016-07-24  2:32         ` Devin
2016-07-24  7:41           ` Simon Wright
2016-07-25  4:35             ` Devin
2016-07-25  8:07               ` Simon Wright
2016-08-20 22:09 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-08-21  1:30   ` Devin
2016-08-21  1:37     ` Devin
2016-08-21 14:38       ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-08-22  4:00         ` Devin
2016-08-22 11:37           ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-29 17:49             ` Nicholas Colin Paul de Gloucester
2016-08-29 21:51               ` rieachus
2016-08-30 14:55                 ` Nicolas Colin Paul de Gloucester
2016-08-31  0:01                   ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-08-31 10:15                     ` Simon Wright
2016-08-31 12:42                 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-01  9:15                   ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2016-09-01 16:33                   ` AdaMagica
2016-09-02  0:36                     ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2016-09-02 12:05                       ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-02 12:53                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-09-02 15:24                           ` G.B.
2016-09-02 21:33                             ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-03  9:20                               ` G.B.
2016-09-03 13:33                                 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2016-09-04 15:08                                 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-02 13:40                         ` AdaMagica
2016-09-03 11:58                           ` Brian Drummond
2016-09-03 12:12                             ` Björn Lundin
2016-08-30 12:33               ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-30 13:01                 ` Simon Wright
2016-08-30 15:06                 ` Nicolas Colin Paul de Gloucester
2016-08-31 10:34                   ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-31 20:58                     ` Simon Wright
2016-09-01 11:08                       ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-31 12:47                 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-01  0:02                   ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-09-01  9:03                     ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
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