From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f954bcd9ffa6c26c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-17 19:40:21 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!falcon.america.net!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Robert Dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Gnat 3.13p: Command_Name RM A.15 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 03:28:07 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <945ns0$7f7$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <200101160612.HAA06787@bulgaria.otn.eurocopter.de> <3A64593A.380F3228@mindspring.com> <94244d$ir2$1@wanadoo.fr> <3A659B05.4FA24A08@mindspring.com> <944r6m$f6d$1@wanadoo.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Jan 18 03:28:07 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; U) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x57.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4134 Date: 2001-01-18T03:28:07+00:00 List-Id: In article <944r6m$f6d$1@wanadoo.fr>, "Jean-Pierre Rosen" wrote: > And it is specially unfortunate that in GNAT System_Name has > the same single value, SYSTEM_NAME_GNAT, on all targets... As I said in the previous note, the idea that every copy of System contains All possible values on all targets is fatally flawed. It is really too bad that the definition was not System_Name : constant String := "impl dependent string"; Then we would just put the target identification string there, this would be perfectly easy to do, but unfortunately is not permitted! Once again, it is perfectly easy to conditionalize code on the basis of the target if you want to, but there is no system independent way of doing this. Yes, it looks like System_Name would help, but it is too broken. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/