Re: This can't be done in Ada...or?

["Manuel G. R." <mgrojo@ya.com>]

Per Lindquist wrote:
> Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> 
>>   procedure Q is
>>      package That is new PragmARC.Reflection;
> 
> 
> Hm, I was so excited about your solution I didn't notice the potential
> problem with overhead, but a collegue of mine did:
> 
> One of our target environments is a time-critical real-time system. We
> are worried about the execution overhead implied by a package
> instantiation (or any 'new' statement) in every subprogram in the
> system.
> 
> Will your solution cause overhead for each subprogram call?
> 

GNAT does provide GNAT.Source_Info.Enclosing_Entity for the same thing 
and probably without overhead. Do other compilers provide something 
equivalent?

If I wrap GNAT.Source_Info, can I expect that when porting to other 
compiler there will be another package providing the same functionality?

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