Re: C Macros and their equivalent in Ada

[Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com wrote:

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|"are there Ada equivalents of the C macros like :                |
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|__DATE__, __TIME__                                               |
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|My searches have not revealed anything. have i missed any obvious|
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How about the function
Ada.Calendar.Clock
to get the current instant and passing that to the Date parameter of
the Ada.Calendar.Split procedure (such that the date would be output
to the other parameters)?

Similarly you could use / and mod to get the time of day from
Ada.Calendar.Seconds.

See
WWW.AdaIC.org/standards/05rm/html/RM-9-6.html#I3741
.

Regards,
Colin Paul Gloster