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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-30 10:25:35 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsgate.cistron.nl!psiuk-p2!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 12:33:29 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9k428r$s6o$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <9k3l9r$10i2$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B656345.64AB603A@sneakemail.com> <9k3oa1$2qg8$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B657715.7EC592D9@sneakemail.com> <3B6588FC.6D40C443@sneakemail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 996510811 28888 136.170.200.133 (30 Jul 2001 16:33:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Jul 2001 16:33:31 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10775 Date: 2001-07-30T16:33:31+00:00 List-Id: IIRC, there are switches for Gnat that enable you to specify a preprocessor. Or some other mechanism. Never used it myself, but tripped across it in the documentation somewhere. It shouldn't be hard to use that or roll-your-own in the form of some sort of shell script or simple program that can execute a command line. Just read the command line, parse it to find the file, preprocess the file and pass the result to gnatmake. I still doubt that this will win lots of converts, but it really wouldn't be that hard to do. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Russ Paielli" <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message news:3B6588FC.6D40C443@sneakemail.com... > > Yes, I realize I could develop a translator independent of any official > Ada standard, and I may end up doing just that. The problem is that > gnatmake and other tools will not work properly unless I can convince > the gnatmake developers to cooperate with me. >