From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.36.36.197 with SMTP id f188mr5408358ita.37.1510975970273; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 19:32:50 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.157.14.201 with SMTP id 67mr174284otj.4.1510975970140; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 19:32:50 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!paganini.bofh.team!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!d140no65479itd.0!news-out.google.com!193ni40iti.0!nntp.google.com!d140no65476itd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 19:32:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a02:1206:45c6:8b20:4e8:5962:9a5:5c48; posting-account=gRqrnQkAAAAC_02ynnhqGk1VRQlve6ZG NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a02:1206:45c6:8b20:4e8:5962:9a5:5c48 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <26846a3b-5d0a-4a25-8b5a-28ad8120c695@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: ada-text_io.ads & text_io.ads From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com Injection-Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 03:32:50 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:48978 Date: 2017-11-17T19:32:49-08:00 List-Id: 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.