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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
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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