From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Received: by 2002:a0c:e109:: with SMTP id w9mr25153350qvk.24.1634566981239; Mon, 18 Oct 2021 07:23:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a25:410d:: with SMTP id o13mr3909039yba.432.1634566981045; Mon, 18 Oct 2021 07:23:01 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.misty.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 07:23:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=146.5.2.231; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC NNTP-Posting-Host: 146.5.2.231 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <5bdabba4-5a20-473c-8dbe-4b70b59af39fn@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Custom Storage Pool questions From: Shark8 Injection-Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 14:23:01 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:63029 List-Id: On Saturday, October 16, 2021 at 9:06:03 AM UTC-6, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > On 2021-10-16 16:32, Simon Wright wrote: > > "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > > > >> Why do you think people keep on asking for Ada preprocessor in c.l.a? > > > > Certainly not something I've noticed > Comes periodically. People falsely believe that conditional compilation > could allow static linking for dynamically configured projects. Having worked on C/C++ projects that used a bunch of preprocessor stuff, esp IFDEF/IFNDEF, I have to say that even if it *were* theoretically possible the resultant mess would be so unmaintainable as to simply not be worth it.