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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:43:35 -0000
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Hyman Rosen wrote:
> Martin Dowie wrote:
>> GNAT comes with an Ada-centric preprocessor but
>> there is nothing to stop you using the 'C' one.
>
> Yes there is. The C preprocessor works with C tokens, and Ada's
> use of the single quote character for attributes will utterly
> confuse it.

Ok - but the only part of the C preprocessor that I've ever even
seen used embedded in Ada code was some "#ifdef" to allow
types to have different ranges on different platforms.

Personally, I'd rather use a separate package and a rename and
let the build process take care of everything - but that's how this
one company had decided to do it.

Cheers

-- Martin