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,FREEMAIL_FROM, 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!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!news.k-dsl.de!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used? Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 22:20:15 +0200 Organization: Ada At Home Message-ID: References: <4bfbdd95$0$6776$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lwoedXCBwVNAtSGnEUHIWA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.53 (Win32) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11988 Date: 2010-05-25T22:20:15+02:00 List-Id: Le Tue, 25 May 2010 21:50:36 +0200, John B. Matthews = a =C3=A9crit: > Early versions of Windows [1] may have been influenced by an > association with Apple's original Macintosh OS, which specified Pascal= > calling conventions Yes, the =E2=80=9Cpush right ot left=E2=80=9D is only for Windows 32 bit= s. Windows 16 bits = as using the pure Pascal calling convention, that is, the =E2=80=9Cpush = left to = right=E2=80=9D. However, in both case, the invoked procedure clean the s= tack. Thanks to have noticed about an influence from Mac. I believe this is = possible, indeed. -- = There is even better than a pragma Assert: a SPARK --# check.