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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd0ee7c9be011576 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-06 14:50:04 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.isc.org!news.gnac.net!uunet!sac.uu.net!ash.uu.net!world!bobduff From: Robert A Duff Subject: Re: Ada Annex E (Just curious :-) Sender: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 22:47:03 GMT References: <3AA29386.E60A686D@linuxchip.demon.co.uk> <980ekl$p4h$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3AA43C58.105B970D@linuxchip.demon.co.uk> <982veb$l62$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <983b1s$m6h$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <983ivv$r8c$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5483 Date: 2001-03-06T22:47:03+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" 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