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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,30f8e9ec3e840189 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-14 09:50:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nnrp1.tor.metronet.ca!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BA2353B.3090302@home.com> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: avl tree - booch components References: <20010907091153.12625104.tonygair@nospam.blueyonder.co.uk> <3B9F7455.80605@home.com> <9nqdh0$938$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <3BA12F31.D75C1280@boeing.com> <9nt2fq$d82$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9nt306$def$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:50:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:50:05 MDT Organization: MetroNet Communications Group Inc. Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13082 Date: 2001-09-14T16:50:05+00:00 List-Id: 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. :-( -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg