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,ff82986c79efd148 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Hannes Haug Subject: Re: Q: inlining Date: 1996/06/24 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 161841390 sender: haugha@chaq.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de references: organization: Uni Tuebingen newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar writes: Robert> Hannes asks "Gnat.info would be even better ;-) But there Robert> is a lot of stuff for which you have to read the sources Robert> of the lib. How to mix Ada and C I/O ? That's Robert> implementation specific and should be in the docs. It Robert> would be nice if all that goes beyond ARM would be Robert> documented. And a TODO would be fine. Will support for Robert> machine intrinsic subprograms be available soon ? Perhaps Robert> I need "ldstub" and "ta" on Sparc." Robert> Yes, there is a lot more documentatoin needed, for some Robert> idea, see the SGI GNAT manuals, which are the model for Robert> the full GNAT documenation currently being written. Where can I find it? I looked at the Ada FAQs, GNAT docs and www.gnat.com. But I found no hint. Robert> Intrinsics will be available soon. (meanwhile you can Robert> always write a C function that uses the gcc instrinsic Robert> feature). I'm looking forward to it. But C isn't an option. Ldstub has to be instrinsic. I'd like to use it for fast synchronization. It think gnat uses mutexes or semaphores for synchronization. That's quite slow. It would slow down consing. I have to care about this at the low level. Otherwise I'd have to care about this stuff at the high level, i.e. algorithms. :-( Perhaps gnat-4 will have faster synchronization? Tasks seem to be quite expensive, too. But I think my demands (not only in this area) are a little bit unusual for Ada. -hannes