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From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)
Subject: Re: PRECOMPILATION
Date: 1999/02/09
Date: 1999-02-09T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36c0b3ad.367441@news.pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 918556681.260459@dedale.pandemonium.fr

>Are there precompilation instructions in Ada95,
>like in C (#ifdef,...etc) ? In other words, how can
>I set compilation conditions ?
  Most compilers are smart enough to delete code in a situation like:
  Sometimes : constant Boolean := False;
....
  if Sometimes then
    stuff;
  end if;
ie, if the optimizer knows "stuff" can never be executed, it will
simply drop it and the if-test.  
   Having worked on well known shrinkwrap software coded with the C
preprocessor, I would STRONGLY recommend against going that route.
Yes, it's just a tool, and judiciously used can be useful.  So's a
hydrogen bomb.




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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-02-09  0:00 PRECOMPILATION =:-) Vincent
1999-02-09  0:00 ` Tom Moran [this message]
1999-02-10  0:00   ` PRECOMPILATION Pascal MALAISE
1999-02-10  0:00     ` PRECOMPILATION Tom Moran
1999-02-09  0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Marin David Condic
1999-02-09  0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Tucker Taft
1999-02-10  0:00   ` PRECOMPILATION Fraser Wilson
1999-02-18  0:00   ` PRECOMPILATION Samuel Mize
1999-02-18  0:00     ` PRECOMPILATION Rakesh Malhotra
1999-02-19  0:00       ` PRECOMPILATION Samuel Mize
1999-02-18  0:00     ` PRECOMPILATION robert_dewar
1999-02-28  0:00     ` PRECOMPILATION Robert A Duff
1999-02-09  0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-09  0:00   ` PRECOMPILATION Pascal MALAISE
1999-02-09  0:00     ` PRECOMPILATION Tom Moran
1999-02-10  0:00       ` PRECOMPILATION Pascal MALAISE
1999-02-10  0:00         ` PRECOMPILATION Tom Moran
1999-02-11  0:00           ` PRECOMPILATION Pascal MALAISE
1999-02-12  0:00             ` PRECOMPILATION robert_dewar
1999-02-14  0:00               ` PRECOMPILATION Pascal MALAISE
1999-02-09  0:00     ` PRECOMPILATION Tucker Taft
1999-02-09  0:00     ` PRECOMPILATION Tom Moran
1999-02-10  0:00       ` PRECOMPILATION dennison
1999-02-10  0:00       ` PRECOMPILATION robert_dewar
1999-02-10  0:00       ` PRECOMPILATION Corey Ashford
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