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- From: Laurent.Guerby@enst-bretagne.fr (Laurent Guerby)
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- Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX
- Date: 10 Apr 1996 15:37:53 +0200
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- Kazimir Kylheku writes
- [deleted]
- : BTW, I checked the Ada POSIX standard too, but that reads like a VCR manual
- : from 1984. ;) heh
-
- This may be the case for the Ada POSIX Binding (I don't remenber
- the POSIX number, I don't know the status of this, still Ada 83 or
- updated to take advantage of Ada 95 ?). But this definitely not the
- case for Ada (83 and 95 standards) IO where the specifications are
- most of the time crystal clear (nearly nothing is
- implementation-defined, except the concept of "external file" which is
- left to the OS/implementor ;-).
-
- The POSIX (C language) interfaces are of interest for compilers
- writers who have to write (sometimes in a portable way) the Ada
- standard libraries (based on UNIX/C routines). But as pointed out (I
- think ;-) by Robert Dewar, the specs of these POSIX routines are not
- accurate enough (sometimes), welcome to pages of #ifdef.
-
- --
- -- Laurent Guerby, student at Telecom Bretagne (France), Team Ada
- -- "Use the Source, Luke. The Source will be with you, always (GPL)"
- -- http://www-eleves.enst-bretagne.fr/~guerby/ (GATO Project)
- -- Try GNAT, the GNU Ada 95 compiler (ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat)
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