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Stephen Leake wrote:
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> DEC Ada had a flag that said "recognize templates, and treat them as
> errors". That way, you could check for other syntax errors, but not
> generate bogus object code. Adding that to GNAT might be a good idea,
> but I never actually used it in DEC Ada.

GNAT does have something somewhat along those lines the "Stubbed"
convention, for pragma Convention().

>From the GNAT RM:

Stubbed 
     Stubbed is a special convention used to indicate that the body of
the subprogram will be entirely ignored. Any call to the subprogram is
converted into a raise of the Program_Error exception. If a pragma
Import specifies convention stubbed then no body need be present at all.
This convention is useful during development for the inclusion of
subprograms whose body has not yet been written. 

Marc A. Criley
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