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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Heartbleed Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 22:24:12 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <1ljwj8f.1wqbhvuabsdw1N%csampson@inetworld.net> <51c7d6d4-e3be-44d5-a4ce-f7e875345588@googlegroups.com> <%J32v.70539$kp1.45343@fx14.iad> NNTP-Posting-Host: aj6W7pNyVjZwdnARGbUbeg.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 User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:19278 Date: 2014-04-12T22:24:12+02:00 List-Id: Le Sat, 12 Apr 2014 20:38:48 +0200, Simon Clubley = a =C3=A9crit: >> I wonder about that; is the runtime that difficult to port? What abou= t >> having "staged" runtimes, with minimal, reduced, and nominal >> functionality? (Perhaps using the restriction pragmas...) >> >> Also, couldn't such a system be made so that the *really* system >> dependent stuff is all hidden in a package-body and [relatively] easy= to >> port? >> >> eg >> Minimal : No tasking or protected objects, or unconstrained functions= >> allowed. >> Reduced : No Tasking and Protected objects; but unconstrained functio= ns >> are allowed. >> Normal : Everything. >> > > People like Luke who have tried this in the past Who's Luke ? -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity