Re: Program identification

[jakrzy@ss2.magec.com (James A. Krzyzanowski)]

Chris Sparks (sparks@AISF.COM) wrote:
: Does anyone know of a way to determine the program name within a program
: without explictly making a constant for it.  If there isn't a way then
: maybe a new attribute should be made for the next version of Ada, namely:

: P'Identity which returns a string, P is a program unit

: I am using this information as part of an exception reporter system.

: BTW these would be helpful too:

: P'Location which returns a string, P is a program unit and the string would
: contain the current line number in the source code, or maybe even the
: previous line number (for exception processing).

: Any thoughts?

Using Alsys Ada on an HP/UX platform, it would be...

System_Environment.Arg_Value (Index => 0);

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