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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1592759aa83d0d45 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-30 00:20:30 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: MI in Ada 200X Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 07:20:29 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <0Pxza.699607$OV.652508@rwcrnsc54> <4a4de33a.0305280557.5d5aba37@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1054279229 18003 129.241.83.78 (30 May 2003 07:20:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 07:20:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38043 Date: 2003-05-30T07:20:29+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > Preben Randhol wrote: > > Seriously what are the pros and cons of MI. > > If SI is considered useful, I fail to see why MI would not be > considered useful. Implementing MI has its difficulties, related > to complicated memory layouts, casting, and so forth. You can get > an idea for the complexities by looking up the C++ ABI that gcc > implements. Well it depends on what you want to do and where you are. But I'm interested to see how the pros outweighs the cons. -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/