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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Software Engineering News Brief
Date: 1996/11/11
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Stefan says

"Does any part of the GNAT toolset ever need to sort these files in
chronological order or perform any other form of timestamp comparison ?"

The answer is yes,
and it does it properly
see the code if you want more details
and of course the only reason for the comparison is to choose the
message to be given in an error situation.