Fri, 29 Oct 1999 14:20:44 -0700
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From: Pascal Obry <[log in to unmask]>
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> Mark Lundquist wrote:
> <<
> This value of the Ada design has sometimes been mistakenly spoken
> of as "portability". From the implementor's point of view,
> there is an appearance of "portability" because it is easier to
> port the compiler to novel architectures. It's really the
> compiler that is made more "portable", not application code.
> >>
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> Are you kidding or did I missed something ????
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> Pascal.
The more degrees of freedom allowed by the language definition, the
easier it is to port implementations of the language system. For
example, for an 18-bit target architecture you would most likely
implement an Ada Standard.Integer as an 18-bit wide type. But you'd
have to implement 32-bit arithmetic on this machine to implement a Java
int.
--
Mark Lundquist
Senior Software Engineer
Rational Software
Development Solutions Business Unit
UNIX Suites Group
Aloha, OR, USA
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