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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded,comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Certified C compilers for safety-critical embedded systems
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:23:22 +0000 (UTC)
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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Martin Krischik wrote:
> > Its called an attribute. All sort of things can have attributes. i.E.
the
> > Integer'Image () (function) attribute creates a String repesenting and
> > Integer.
>
> This is the main feature which confounds attempts to use the C
> preprocessor on Ada programs. It also confounds "ordinary" program
> editors that believe single quotes should come in matched pairs.
>
> Yet another obstacle for potential new users of Ada, who might want
> to load up some Ada code in a non-Ada IDE to have a look at it.

I've never used it but what about the GNAT pre-processor (gnatprep?). Given
that it is a pre-processor for Ada (well GNAT Ada :-) it should be able to
handle everything.

Otherwise, you are surely using a knife when you need a spoon...