From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: ada-text_io.ads & text_io.ads
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 19:32:49 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2017-11-17T19:32:49-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26846a3b-5d0a-4a25-8b5a-28ad8120c695@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ounrt5$ba4$1@gioia.aioe.org>
The file names for Ada.*, GNAT.* and System.* are shortened to hold on 8 letters.
This is due to an old system called DOS that had this limitation.
Perhaps GCC rules still requires it, or it would need a significant effort to change GNAT's naming rules...
Funnily, someone, somewhere still builds a GNAT for DOS:
(see ada550* files there : http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/ )
G.
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2017-11-17 23:38 ada-text_io.ads & text_io.ads Victor Porton
2017-11-18 0:28 ` Shark8
2017-11-18 0:33 ` Victor Porton
2017-11-18 1:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-18 3:32 ` gautier_niouzes [this message]
2017-11-18 7:28 ` Niklas Holsti
2017-11-18 8:26 ` Simon Wright
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