Re: HELP!

[jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)]

In article <dewar.858685643@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> Jon says
> 
> <<Easiest way to know where this is, is to look at what's in
> ADA_INCLUDE_PATH.  It will have listed in it, the directory containing
> the library stuff.>>
> 
> The trouble if you do this is that you will not know what is standard
> Ada, and what are routines special to GNAT that are not part of the
> language. Better to stick to the standard documentation sources (RM
> and the GNAT manual. The one exception is that the GNAT hierarchy
> contains routines that are definitely available for use (but are not
> standard Ada).

Good points, well taken.  I believed though that the poster wanted to
look at the sources (which may well be for legitimate reasons).


> Advising people to look in Ada_Include_Path is not helpful on many 
> GNAT systems, because the library will not be in the path (on many
> GNAT installations, following standard Unix practice, there is a default
> directory for the standard library that is NOT explicitly in the path.

Thanks for the correction.

/Jon
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