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Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> 	As a side-effect, it requires that files containing multiple
> units be split (gnatchop) so that the unit names become entities in
> the filesystem.  cf: 4.A.3; this then permits gnatmake and the
> compiler to locate units when referenced (with'ed). For a system to
> fit the APSE requirements yet allow multiple units within a file
> requires some other meta-data to be maintained somehow so that the
> tools of the APSE can find the correct file given just the entity
> name.

You can use gprname[1] to generate this metadata (which says e.g. "package
body P is the second unit in file files.ada").

[1]
http://docs.adacore.com/gprbuild-docs/html/gprbuild_ug/companion_tools.html#specifying-a-naming-scheme-with-gprname