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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
Subject: Re: ada-text_io.ads & text_io.ads
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 09:28:42 +0200
Date: 2017-11-18T09:28:42+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7a5pbFn38fU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26846a3b-5d0a-4a25-8b5a-28ad8120c695@googlegroups.com>

On 17-11-18 05:32 , gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com wrote:
> The file names for Ada.*, GNAT.* and System.* are shortened to hold
> on 8 letters.

The GNAT tool "gnatkr", where "kr" means "krunch", implements this 
abbreviation. You run it from the command line with the normal GNAT 
file-name as the argument; it prints out the abbreviated file name. For 
example:

 > gnatkr ada-text_io.ads
a-textio.ads
 >

(where ">" is my prompt character).

> Perhaps GCC rules still requires it

I seem to remember that some GNAT versions require this abbreviated 
naming for the run-time-system sources.

-- 
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-18  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-17 23:38 ada-text_io.ads & text_io.ads Victor Porton
2017-11-18  0:28 ` Shark8
2017-11-18  0:33   ` Victor Porton
2017-11-18  1:34     ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-18  3:32 ` gautier_niouzes
2017-11-18  7:28   ` Niklas Holsti [this message]
2017-11-18  8:26     ` Simon Wright
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