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From: Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Subject: Re: First time Ada has let me down
Date: 26 Oct 2000 14:49:04 -0700
Date: 2000-10-26T14:49:04-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yecwvev1df3.fsf@king.cts.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8ta429$mtt$1@wanadoo.fr

Guillaume <guifo@wanadoo.fr> writes:
[...]
> "Address clauses should not be used to achieve overlays of objects or 
> overlays of program units. Nor should a given interrupt be linked to more 
> than one entry. Any program using address clauses to achieve such effects 
> is erroneous."

Note that this rule is relaxed somewhat in Ada 95.  The new wording
(RM95-13.3(13)) is

    If an Address is specified, it is the programmer's responsibility
    to ensure that the address is valid; otherwise, program execution
    is erroneous.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center           <*>  <http://www.sdsc.edu/~kst>
Welcome to the last year of the 20th century.



  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-26 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-25  3:50 First time Ada has let me down Shifty
2000-10-25  0:00 ` wv12
2000-10-25  0:00   ` Gautier
2000-10-25  0:00   ` Gisle Sælensminde
2000-10-25  0:00   ` Joel Seidman
2000-10-26  6:42   ` tmoran
2000-10-25  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-10-25  0:00   ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-25  0:00     ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-10-25  0:00       ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-25  0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-10-25  0:00   ` Shifty
2000-10-26  4:00     ` Jeff Carter
2000-10-26 14:43       ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-26 17:55         ` tmoran
2000-10-26 17:12       ` Shifty
2000-10-27  1:00         ` Jeff Carter
2000-10-26 22:27       ` Guillaume
2000-10-26 21:49         ` Keith Thompson [this message]
2000-10-26 14:36     ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-26 17:55       ` tmoran
2000-10-26 23:08         ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-25  0:00 ` First time Ada has let me down (recipe) Guillaume
2000-10-26  2:45   ` Mats Weber
2000-10-25  4:44 ` First time Ada has let me down Julian Morrison
2000-10-25  4:50 ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-24  0:00   ` Keith Thompson
2000-10-26  0:00   ` Andreas Schulz
2000-10-26 18:05     ` Alejandro Villanueva
2000-10-26 21:46 ` Tucker Taft
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