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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,46a68619f4362304 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Nick Roberts" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Specifying parameter passing convention and place (register) Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:30:13 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de nerBtdfmiR/zSKVR7ewcdAhY4MuiLNilMhU5UardazmIPFQYo= User-Agent: Opera M2/7.51 (Win32, build 3798) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2086 Date: 2004-07-06T18:30:13+01:00 List-Id: On 6 Jul 2004 07:58:55 -0500, Larry Kilgallen wrote: > GNAT has (reportedly) implemented the DEC Ada mechanism for doing > this. Why not use that ? Unless you find a particular defect in > that design, commonality is good. Where would I find the documentation for this, please? I have sought but not found. Would I be right in thinking that, sadly, DEC Ada is now nearly as dead as the Dodo? If so, there isn't doesn't really seem to be any reason for me to use the DEC Ada mechanism, other than perhaps that it is well-designed in general and a good model to copy. GNAT on any other platform (than VMS) uses the GCC way of inlining machine code, which I am certainly not going to replicate. -- Thanks, Nick Roberts