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: 103376,4ef4bf3098ab117 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!newsserver.cilea.it!news.crs4.it!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada compiler differences Date: 18 Oct 2004 16:01:50 +0200 Organization: CRS4, Center for Adv. Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: jacob.crs4.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: pietro.crs4.it 1098103131 30077 156.148.71.80 (18 Oct 2004 12:38:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@nntpserver.crs4.it. NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Oct 2004 12:38:51 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5400 Date: 2004-10-18T12:38:51+00:00 List-Id: Magnus wrote: > Could someone please point me to a list of things that may be > implementation dependent in different Ada compilers and/or on > different platforms? There is a list in one of the last sections in the language reference manual. > Or rather: how can I write code that really is platform (and > compiler) independent in Ada? One advice: * Don't depend on predefined types (Integer, Float, Natural, etc.) where it makes more sense to declare a specific type for your specific use. (you'll probably get more) Greetings, Jacob -- �When Roman engineers built a bridge, they had to stand under it while the first legion marched across. If programmers today worked under similar ground rules, they might well find themselves getting much more interested in Ada!� -- Robert Dewar