CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC 8652-96 (R2014)

Scope

This International Standard specifies the form and meaning of programs written in Ada. Its purpose is to promote the portability of Ada programs to a variety of data processing systems.

1.1.1  Extent This International Standard specifies: the form of a program written in Ada the effect of translating and executing such a program the manner in which program units may be combined to form Ada programs the language-defined library units that a conforming implementation is required to supply the permissible variations within the standard, and the manner in which they are to be documented those violations of the standard that a conforming implementation is required to detect, and the effect of attempting to translate or execute a program containing such violations those violations of the standard that a conforming implementation is not required to detect.
This International Standard does not specify: the means whereby a program written in Ada is transformed into object code executable by a processor the means whereby translation or execution of programs is invoked and the executing units are controlled the size or speed of the object code, or the relative execution speed of different language constructs the form or contents of any listings produced by implementations; in particular, the form or contents of error or warning messages the effect of unspecified execution the size of a program or program unit that will exceed the capacity of a particular conforming implementation.