Re: Restrictions on compilers for Microsoft's .NET project

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:

> Page 11 of the March 2002 MSDN magazine from Microsoft announces
> TMT Development Corporation's Pascal compiler for .NET.  It says the
> compiler "can accept programs in standard Pascal (except for some unsafe
> features, such as records with variants, which are allowed if variants
> aren't overlapped)".

Note that this says that non-overlapped variants are ok. Ada only
allows non-overlapped variants.

> Is lack of variant records a TMT decision or a requirement of .NET ?
> If the latter, it would not bode well for the possibility of a full
> Ada compiler targeting that environment.

It sounds to me like we are ok. MS is trying to forbid unchecked
conversions via C-style unions.

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