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From: jls@actnyc.UUCP (Jonathan Schilling)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: DEC Ada units in program limitation
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Date: 27 Dec 88 21:51:11 GMT
Organization: InterACT Corporation, New York
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The DEC VAX Ada compiler (version 1.5) documents two different limits for how 
many program units can be in an executable program.  The LRM Appendix F says
1000, while the Technical Summary says 4095 (with a subordinate limit of 1023
for the transitive closure of with clauses for any one unit).

Does anyone know which of these limits is accurate?  The 1000 limit is pretty
low for real-life use.  Does anyone know of a workaround for it, other than
linking separate images and spawning between them (which would seem to be slow)?
Does anyone have a feeling for whether DEC intends to relax the limit in a 
future release?

Thanks for any info....

Jonathan Schilling
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