Re: avl tree - booch components

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Found something in the GNAT RM that looks like it does the job:

pragma Ident
Syntax:
pragma Ident (static_string_EXPRESSION);

This pragma provides a string identification in the generated object file,
if the system supports the concept of this kind of identification string.
The maximum permitted length of the string literal is 31 characters. This
pragma is allowed only in the outermost declarative part or declarative
items of a compilation unit. On OpenVMS systems, the effect of the pragma is
identical to the effect of the DEC Ada 83 pragma of the same name.



Obviously not a standard Ada pragma but if your project is strictly GNAT
specific, you'd be all right using it to get appropriate strings into a
binary. Perhaps there should be a mechanism in Ada0x for this purpose?

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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote in
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> I thought there was a pragma - probably GNAT specific - that let you put
> strings into a binary build for identification purposes. Can't recall at
the
> moment what it was, but I'm pretty sure it was there.
>