Re: Ada Annex E (Just curious :-)

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>]

"Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> writes:

>...The problem is that because you have no OS and you may not even
> have similar processors, you're not going to get the distribution features
> of Annex E unless someone goes and modifies the compiler to use whatever it
> is you've got to do the communications.

A major goal of Annex E is to allow the user of a compiler, or a third
party, to provide the (low-level) communications software, *without*
modifying the compiler.  The compiler provides marshalling/unmarshalling
of data structures and so forth, and there's a well-defined interface to
the communications software, so you should be able to plug in your own,
and still get RPC.  Is there some way in which this goal is not
achieved?

- Bob