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: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-11 14:10:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!newshub1.nl.home.com!news.nl.home.com!bullseye.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!pogner.demon.co.uk!zap!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: why not Date: 11 Oct 2001 21:34:58 +0100 Organization: Pushface Message-ID: References: <3BC30674.BA88AAB6@brighton.ac.uk> <9pvv3t$ves$1@news.huji.ac.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1002834565 nnrp-08:24438 NO-IDENT pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Oct 2001 20:34:58 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14333 Date: 2001-10-11T20:34:58+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison writes: > I agree with the need, and the Booch Components are probably the > best available starting point. My first thought was to make this > exact same post. However, the current implementation of Booch has > not really been designed with real-time needs in mind. For instance, > many of the "bounded" structures, which one would naievely assume > don't perform dynamic allocations, do in fact perform dynamic > allocations, sometimes even during lookups. Since I'm currently engaged in a real (VxWorks) project which is hoping to use the BCs, I've come to appreciate Ted's point. The present release does no dynamic allocations at all for bounded structures (well, if it does, it's a bug).