From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d3037f71d9d26da1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-10 17:07:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!washdc3-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!ngpeer.news.aol.com!feed2.newsreader.com!newsreader.com!newshosting.com!news-xfer2.atl.newshosting.com!216.166.71.118.MISMATCH!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Preprocessor functionality equivalent ideas needed References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 01:07:20 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.105.176 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1071104840 63.184.105.176 (Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:07:20 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:07:20 PST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3346 Date: 2003-12-11T01:07:20+00:00 List-Id: Greg Milford wrote: > I checked the FAQ for this group and did not get an answer to this. I know > Ada does not have a preprocessor, so how should I go about maintaining > changes to a common code base that needs to be built under two different > configurations? Generally, you define a package specification for the functionality you require, then implement different bodies for it for the different situations. -- Jeff Carter "Perfidious English mouse-dropping hoarders." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 10