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jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net wrote:
> The data sheet does not indicate how nested subprograms or packages
> are translated.

Back in the day, I wrote a translator between two hardware
description languages. The source has nested subprograms
and the target did not. I did it by wrapping all the local
variables of subprograms into a record and maintaining a
display as an array of pointers to these records.