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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: C Macros and their equivalent in Ada
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On Sep 9, 3:43 am, "RasikaSriniva...@gmail.com"
<RasikaSriniva...@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?
>
> thanks, srini

Ada doesn't have a standard mechanism for providing the compilation
date and time.  There's no reason why a particular implementation
couldn't provide something like this, though---perhaps a package with
special String constants or functions (most likely using pragma
Import) that would cause the compiler to substitute the compile date/
time when the constant or function is used.  Our compiler has
something like this.  Don't know whether GNAT does.  If you need it,
you may want to ask your compiler vendor for this sort of feature.  It
shouldn't be terribly difficult to implement.

                                  -- Adam