Re: avl tree - booch components

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com>]

Marin David Condic wrote:

> Found something in the GNAT RM that looks like it does the job:
> 
> pragma Ident
> Syntax:
> pragma Ident (static_string_EXPRESSION);
> 
> This pragma provides a string identification in the generated object file,
> if the system supports the concept of this kind of identification string.
> The maximum permitted length of the string literal is 31 characters. This
> pragma is allowed only in the outermost declarative part or declarative
> items of a compilation unit. On OpenVMS systems, the effect of the pragma is
> identical to the effect of the DEC Ada 83 pragma of the same name.
> 
> Obviously not a standard Ada pragma but if your project is strictly GNAT
> specific, you'd be all right using it to get appropriate strings into a
> binary. Perhaps there should be a mechanism in Ada0x for this purpose?

I totally agree. This is a feature that is very important to any kind
of production support. For my purposes, the GNAT pragma will do, though
it irks me to use non-standard features. :-(
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