From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Effort to Port TSG to Ada-95 and How Fast it Ran in Gnat
Date: 1997/02/20
Date: 1997-02-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1997Feb20.075315.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.856407400@merv
In article <dewar.856407400@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> Some comments on Michael's porting experience
>
> (my comments are marked by -->)
> (5) Certain packages and variable names had to be renamed to
> permit gnat chopping, because the gnat rule gave them the same name
> (for example, try gnatchopping the serial port interrupt handler that
> comes in the EXAMPLES directory of the Alsys compiler).
>
> --> Obviously this can only occur in a DOS-like environment with
> limited length of names, otherwise of course names never clash.
> In the latest version of GNAT (3.10), gnatchop pays attention
> to the Source_File_Name pragmas in gnat.adc, so this is another
> way of doing things without chnaging the source.
Is this problem totally impossible in non-DOS environments, or just less
likely (for those of us who think adding pragmas changes source :-) ?
Larry Kilgallen
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-02-19 0:00 Effort to Port TSG to Ada-95 and How Fast it Ran in Gnat Michael F Brenner
1997-02-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1997-02-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-21 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-02-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-27 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-03-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Elaboration order (was: Effort to Port TSG to Ada-95 and How Fast it Ran in Gnat) Mats Weber
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