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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
Subject: Re: STM32F4 GNAT Run Time System - roadmap
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:22:39 -0000 (UTC)
Date: 2015-12-10T18:22:39+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <n4cftd$g4h$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: n4ab1d$c4c$1@loke.gir.dk

On 2015-12-09, Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> "Simon Clubley" <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote in 
> message news:n49suh$en8$1@dont-email.me...
>>
>> What's the general feeling within the ARG about the related AI12-0127-1
>> partial aggregate notation proposal, especially as it applies to updating
>> bitfields within device registers ? How likely is that to happen ?
>
> The holdup is that the proposal only covers record aggregates. The similar 
> SPARK feature includes all kinds of aggregates, and of course we'd like to 
> be able to replace the SPARK feature entirely. The problem being that there 
> isn't an obvious extension for array aggregates (it's much messier once 
> multi-dimensional arrays are considered), so it's back in the lab at the 
> moment. I think there is a good chance that it will be adopted down the 
> road, but it's definitely not a slam-dunk.
>

Thanks Randy.

It would be a shame if it was rejected because of SPARK. Even when
restricted to records it still brings benefits to Ada code, especially
when doing things like device register bitfield manipulation.

Simon.

-- 
Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-10 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-09 12:02 STM32F4 GNAT Run Time System - roadmap Simon Wright
2015-06-09 19:44 ` Tero Koskinen
2015-06-12 17:31   ` MIchael Erdmann
2015-06-12 18:19     ` Simon Wright
2015-06-09 20:08 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-06-10 17:47   ` Simon Wright
2015-06-10 19:54     ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-06-10 21:11       ` Simon Wright
2015-06-10  8:19 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-06-10  8:24 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-06-10 17:55   ` Simon Wright
2015-06-10 19:30     ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-06-10 11:20 ` Brian Drummond
2015-06-10 21:19   ` Simon Wright
2015-06-11 10:10     ` Brian Drummond
2015-06-13 13:21     ` Jedi Tek'Unum
2015-06-13 14:15       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-06-13 14:55       ` Simon Wright
2015-06-13 17:43         ` Jedi Tek'Unum
2015-12-06 18:34   ` Simon Wright
2015-12-07 10:39     ` Brian Drummond
2016-01-28 20:52       ` Simon Wright
2016-01-30 14:21         ` Brian Drummond
2015-12-07 15:13     ` Jere
2015-12-07 16:31       ` Simon Wright
2015-12-07 16:49       ` Simon Wright
2015-12-07 17:56         ` Jere
2015-12-07 22:02           ` Simon Wright
2015-12-08 14:03             ` Jere
2015-12-08 15:07               ` Tero Koskinen
2015-12-09  1:46                 ` Jere
2015-12-08  2:11     ` Randy Brukardt
2015-12-09 18:46       ` Simon Clubley
2015-12-09 22:47         ` Randy Brukardt
2015-12-10 18:22           ` Simon Clubley [this message]
2015-12-11 14:59       ` AI12-0128 (was: STM32F4 GNAT Run Time System - roadmap) Simon Wright
2015-12-11 21:18         ` Randy Brukardt
2015-06-10 15:20 ` STM32F4 GNAT Run Time System - roadmap Patrick Noffke
2015-06-15 19:03 ` Simon Wright
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