From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: seperate keyword and seperate compilation with Gnat?
Date: 1996/07/09
Date: 1996-07-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.96Jul9173052@organon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 31D95D93.28D8D15B@jinx.sckans.edu
In article <Du88uz.JLn@world.std.com> bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) writes:
> In article <dewar.836427220@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> >Anyway, it would really be interesting to here if there are interesting
> >examples of large type 2 cases which would make it worth fixing at least
> >this subunit case to do "true" separate compilation.
>
> I suspect that most subunits are subprograms, and their parents are most
> often packages. That's true of most code I've seen, and code I've
> written myself.
I'll second that!
> On the other hand, I'm pretty happy with GNAT subunit handling as it is,
> since I'm pretty happy to use child units instead. What can subunits do
> that child units can't? Well, a subunit can see stuff in the parent's
And this too. I think GNAT is just fine on this issue the way it is.
A year or so ago, when I first came across it, I thought it might be
a big deal. But I was wrong - it just isn't.
/Jon
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-07-02 0:00 seperate keyword and seperate compilation with Gnat? David Morton
1996-07-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-02 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-02 0:00 ` David Morton
1996-07-02 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-07-03 0:00 ` *separate* keyword and *separate* " David Morton
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-03 0:00 ` seperate keyword and seperate " Robert Dewar
1996-07-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Rob Kirkbride
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-08 0:00 ` John Herro
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-10 0:00 ` John Herro
1996-07-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-09 0:00 ` progers
1996-07-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-08 0:00 ` michael
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-12 0:00 ` David Morton
1996-07-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Michael Paus
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Mike Card (x3022)
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-09 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1996-07-09 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-14 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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