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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Placement of pragma Import
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> In my opinion, the best place to put it would be in the package
> body.  After all, what you're declaring with the pragma Import
> is the _implementation_ of the procedure Asm_Coded.
  "If a completion is a pragma Import, then it shall appear in
the same declarative part, package specification, ... as the
declaration." RM B.1(22)
  "The convention represents the calling convention..." ARM B.1(30)
A caller, which has access only to the spec, clearly needs to know
the calling convention.