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From: Dirk Zoller <duz>
Subject: Re: ifdef replacement for GNAT
Date: 1998/04/10
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Date: 1998-04-10T00:00:00+00:00
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dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> John said
> 
> <<For those interested, gnatprep is a preprocessing utility included in
> the GNAT distribution which will support #ifdef type conditional
> compilations.  gnatprep produces an output file which forms the input to
> the compiler.

The designers of Ada have thought of so many things. Very
impressive. Of the procedural languages I know it is the one where I
can express the most in terms of the plain standard language.

With the exception of nonstandard stuff imposed on me by the
environment I'm programming for. These preprocessor conditionals are
missing. Or am I missing something?

How is an Ada project (GNAT) being kept portable among various Unices
and say, Win32? Assume there is something special to be done in all
environments. Without using a nonstandard tool like gnatprep that is.

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