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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Why can't objects be static in Ada?
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 20:47:28 -0700
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Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> writes:
> Someone sent in a pull request to my bindings and had to change a few
> constants to functions because objects can't be static. For an
> example:
>
>    type Sizes is
>       record
>          Width  : Dimension;
>          Height : Dimension;
>       end record with
>      Convention => C;
>
>    Zero_Size : constant Sizes := (others => Natural_Dimension'First);
>
> Why can't Zero_Size be compiled as static in this pre-elaborated
> package?

What exactly do you mean by "static"?  That word has very different
meanings in C and Ada.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Will write code for food.
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */