Re: C Macros and their equivalent in Ada

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com wrote:
> are there Ada equivalents of the C macros like :
>
> __DATE__, __TIME__
>
> My searches have not revealed anything. have i missed any obvious
> pragmas?

No, Ada does not have macros. I am not aware of any compiler that
provides the equivalent of C's __DATE__ and __TIME__ macros (which,
for those here who don't know C, expand to the date and time at which
preprocessing took place, as strings).

If you need that feature, you're better off generating an Ada source
file from the "date" utility, e.g.

echo "package Compilation_Date is" > compilation_date.ads
echo "   Timestamp : constant String := \"$(date --full-ISO)\";" >>
compilation_date.ads
echo "end Compilation_Date;" >> compilation_date.ads

HTH

--
Ludovic Brenta.