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Gene wrote:
> For an educational exercise using GNAT and gnatmake, I need to hide
> implementations of some modules from students in the simplest possible
> way.
> 
> Is there a way to give them .ali, .ads, and .o files while withholding
> the corresponding .adb, somehow telling gnatmake (and gnatbind) to
> ignore the absence?

IIRC, if the .ali files are read-only, GNAT will not require the source of the 
bodies. This may not work for generics or other cases where the compilation has 
a dependency on the body, such as cross-unit inlining.

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Jeff Carter
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