Re: NT kernel-mode device drivers in Ada?

[Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>]

mbates@ionet.net (Mike D Bates) writes:

> Could use some help in answering yet another objection to Ada.  Has
> anyone here successfully implemented an NT kernel-mode device driver.
> A FAQ on the subject (http://www.cmkrnl.com/faq.html) says that using
> anything but C for this purpose would be like swimming upstream with a
> brick in each hand.  Can anyone cite experience to the contrary?

No experience, but -

* in a Unix environment, device drivers only communicate with
applications through the standard system interfaces (open, close,
ioctl, read, write, ..) so the language used has zero impact on the
applications, and you should use whatever gets the job done best; I
expect NT is the same?

* part of getting the job done must be the support offered by the
development environment, which is I suspect the point of the FAQ
quote.

* you would need to be pretty careful in the Ada you wrote to be sure
of exactly what bits of the Ada runtime you were calling in

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