From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
To: GCC-Help ML <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: On the C99 Status
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1206212026.6286.13.camel@rogue> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803221824.12543.krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 18:24 +0100, Martin Krischik wrote:
> Note that the features you mentioned have been available for in - in for
> example Ada - for over ten years (complex numbers ) or 20 years (variable
> length arrays) now - and they have been implemented by the compiler vendors.
>
> I mention Ada because this is where good foundation come into play. When Ada
> came out it was dismissed for been to heavy and difficult - while C was so
> light and elegant.
>
> Now 20 years later and see what happened: The Ada front end of GCC 4.3
> implements Ada 2007 in full - only a year after the standard was finalised
I'm not convinced that's true, in mine and other peoples tests, the
interfaces of Ada 2005 still does not work in Ada. I've yet to test
4.3.0 but I've been informed that they don't work properly in the
previous beta.
Luke.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-22 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-22 12:09 Paulo J. Matos
2008-03-22 18:18 ` Martin Krischik
2008-03-22 18:53 ` Luke A. Guest [this message]
2008-03-23 8:18 ` Martin Krischik
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