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From: Mats Karlssohn <mats@mida.se>
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Subject: Re: Compile time executed functions
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 09:53:26 +0200
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Simon Wright wrote:
> 
> "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org> writes:
> 
> > It's the part about "pasting the output" that seems odd. Why not
> > have it generate a stand-alone Ada *package* (e.g, BlahBlah)? We do
> > this now in a number of cases. In fact, you can have an automated
> > build script that generates the code, updates the CM system with it,
> > then does the things you usually expect in such a script (extract
> > source from CM system, compile, link...)
> 
> The part that worries me about that is the 'updates the CM system with
> it'. I can see that there _are_ arguments, it's just that I've also
> seen projects keep the generated code in the CM system *and then
> modify it by hand*.

Yep, that's the way it's done here (at least for this particular
project).

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Mats Karlssohn, developer                         mailto:mats@mida.se  
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