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,fe7b178ffa3708a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-25 12:49:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Omission in the Ada Standard Date: 25 Sep 2003 20:47:14 +0100 Organization: Pushface Sender: simon@smaug.pushface.org Message-ID: References: <657ea3e3.0309250705.3537b0b0@posting.google.com> <27bIRIzistKH@eisner.encompasserve.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1064519340 4981 62.49.19.209 (25 Sep 2003 19:49:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:49:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42929 Date: 2003-09-25T20:47:14+01:00 List-Id: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes: > In article <657ea3e3.0309250705.3537b0b0@posting.google.com>, rleif@rleif.com (Robert C. Leif) writes: > > While I was working on my latest project, the CellFuge, I was shocked > > to learn that Jerry van Dijk's Io_Ports package that I have did not > > compile with GNAT. I do need an up to date version. Since the Intel > > Pentium class of processors and their clones are a very large part of > > the software market, the possibility of port based IO should be > > included in Ada. > > And what would the meaning be on some other processor for which a > standard-compliant Ada compiler is needed ? About as little as GNAT's Interfaces.VxWorks package, I guess! (I think they have a System.VxWorks too).