Re: Gnat 3.13p: Command_Name RM A.15

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <u8zoagf9v.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>,
  Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> System.System_Name should do the trick, but unfortunately,
GNAT
> _always_ returns SYSTEM_NAME_GNAT for this, no matter what
system it
> is on. I guess it's too hard to get it right? On problem
would be that
> the _same_ executable can run on several different systems,
so some
> sort of OS call would be required.


You can't do an OS call!!!!! This is a static constant that
you can access at compile time. That's the problem with this
feature, it is very broken.


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