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Subject: Re: Ada standard and maximum line lengths
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Date: 2013-01-30T09:37:46+00:00
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Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:

> When GNAT started to support ISO/IEC 10646 ("universal characters"),
> GNAT's upper bound on identifier lengths had to be lifted. Even in the
> sense that line length implies identifier length: There are names in
> the Unicode character database that have made the source files
> exceeded GNAT's upper bound on line lengths (79).

That's GNAT's default _style_ limit on line length, above which you get
a warning if you ask for style checks (-gnaty). For its own sources
(maybe not for (all) the libraries?), GNAT treats warnings as errors.