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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,75d30dcc94970bf1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: Book on Posix Ada Bindings ? Date: 2000/05/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 628643987 Sender: rusfw@mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de References: <392FEBE3.7F3569C1@aston.ac.uk> <8grdp1$pjd$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar writes: > In article <392FEBE3.7F3569C1@aston.ac.uk>, > millerhc@aston.ac.uk wrote: > > Does anyone know of a book written or being written about the > use of the > > Posix 5 ada bindings ??? > > The standard itself seems a pretty clear document to me. What > are you looking for, an elementary tutorial of some kind? If > so, I don't think there is any such. The standard is pretty expensive, especially for students. In addition, public libraries hardly have any IEEE standards, at least here in Germany. The university has got a copy or two of POSIX 1003.5, but only of the 1992 edition. (And we have some strong Ada advocates over here, that's why I assume that the situation is even worse at many other locations.) (This is not specific to the POSIX Ada standards, it applies to IEEE 1003 as a whole. But at least for some of the C interfaces, textbooks are widely available.) Of course you could argue that 1003.5 (1992) is sufficient because anything that was added later is hardly found in the GNAT/FLORIST implementation, but this argument is no longer valid if someone wants to implement some aspects of 1003.5c instead of writing your his own bindings to the corresponding C functions.