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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
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Subject: Re: ada vs. cpp
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* Vector..@ wrote:
>What is wrong with pthreads?
>
>Yes, it is not part of the language, but it is a standard (POSIX), and
>available in all platforms (except may on windows, I am not sure, but
>who cares about widnows anyway).

My NEXTSTEP can't even compile zlib (needed by openssh-portable), so I'm
pretty disilusionated from Posix. OTOH one of my DSPs has Character'Size = 32,
a pretty common problem to almost all C based programs, because they tend to
use constructs like
   for (unsigned char c = 0; c < UCHAR_MAX + 1; c++) { ... }
instead of the correct idiom
   unsigned char c = 0; do { ... } while (c++ != UCHAR_MAX);
for
   for c in Character'Range loop ... end loop;

This DSP is always funny because sizeof(int[8]) == 4. This causes several
memory reservation problems.

But even with Linux on x86 you may run into common idiom problems:
  int fd = open (...);
fails if you compile with -mshort (some programs do this), because the
kernel limits NR_OPEN to 1024*1024.

...