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Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> wrote:
> : Better than Gnat, but still not terribly useful if you want to make code 
> : that will compile on both a Gnat and an Aonix platform.
> 
> What kind of difficulties do you see that could be better solved
> by a preprocessor? (Things supported in GNAT but not ObjectAda or vice
> versa? Dependence on pragmata?)

MDC pointed out that you cannot conditionally do "with"
as one example. Implementation defined pragmas are
another area of difficulty. Optional features are
a pain to deal with since there is no way to feed
values into a compile process (using make),
without creating make "steps" that process the
source code before hand (ie. this becomes a manual
preprocessing step).

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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
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