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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: What exactly is the licensing situation with GNAT?
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 22:51:21 -0600
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"David Botton" <david@botton.com> wrote in message 
news:19fa65d4-72c9-44ab-b44b-4ea0929c18f2@googlegroups.com...
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>There is nothing in Gnoga other than the use again of Object'Img preventing 
>it
>from being used on Janus if it ever gets updated to Ada 2012.

Semi-related to this is that we approved Obj'Image as a language-defined 
attribute, to be included in the 2015 Ada Corrigendum. [AdaCore told us that 
they had used 'Img only because the language would not allow them to change 
Image that way. The ARG has no such limitations. ;-)] So there should be 
little reason to use the GNAT extension going forward. Of course, I don't 
know when that will appear in GNAT or other compilers, but it's unlikely to 
be much work and it's obviously used a lot, so I expect it to be relatively 
quick (at least in compilers that are still actively developed; it'll be a 
fairly high priority for Janus/Ada, because it is so handy).

                                        Randy.