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From: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
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Subject: Re: Streams in Ada
Date: 02 Apr 2001 17:10:54 +0200
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"Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> writes:

> But wouldn't that posit that there *was* an Ada95 implementation on a PDP-10
> and that a Stream_Element was 36 bits?

Well, the poster specifically mentioned portability, and his code does
not work on such an architecture.  IMHO, portable code hasn't just to
run on all platforms which exist (this could be called 'practically
portable code'), but on all Ada implementations.

> Someone mentioned here a few days ago about the existence of PDP-10
> look-alikes, but I don't think anyone has any evidence of a validated Ada95
> compiler for one of them.

GCC is currently being ported to it.