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Niklas Holsti schrieb:

> Did you read about the package Ada.Tags (RM 3.9)?

Also, http://www.adaic.org/standards/05rat/html/Rat-2-6.html

> Perhaps some expert can explain why this reflection capability (find
> tags for all derived types in a class) was not included in Ada.Tags?
> Perhaps because Ada run-time systems do not need such a function for
> their own purposes?

Not an expert, but finding the tagged types after the fact
and when using GNAT can be done, sort of, with gnatxref -d .

Or, if the names of the types share a common substring,
using gnatfind.