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Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:

>> Perhaps GCC rules still requires it
>
> I seem to remember that some GNAT versions require this abbreviated
> naming for the run-time-system sources.

Not sure that there's a GNAT version that doesn't!

Actually, the rules may be a little relaxed for non-standard RTS
components: I named the file containing System.FreeRTOS.Memory
s-fremem.ads as indicated by gnatkr, but the RTS will build happily with
file name system-freertos-memory.adb.

The 8-character filename restriction dates back to DOS days, of
course. There are still references to DJGPP in the GCC sources.