Re: reverse Integer'image(someString);

["Björn Lundin" <bnl@spray.se>]

2005-04-25 kl. 20.39 skrev Pascal Obry:

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> Björn Lundin <bnl@spray.se> writes:
>
>> My compiler also says it is required (Alsys Ada on Aix)
>> I think this actually was a constraint in Ada 83 but removed in Ada 95
>
> I see, it is not "constant" that is required. The problem was that Ada 
> 83 was
> not able to initialized unconstraint objects like strings.
>
> There was 2 solutions:
>
>    Str : constant String := "...";
>
> or
>
>    Str : String (1 .. 3) := "...";
>
> Pascal.

Correct, and when you don't know the length of the term to the right of 
the assignment, as
in the example (integer'image(An_Anteger)), then you are pretty much 
stuck with your first solution,
as Larry replied.

By the way Pascal,  I got AWS 1.4 running on Aix 4.3.3 on a production 
site.
(We did an extension to our warehouse management system for a customer 
with AWS)

I won't go to AWS 2.x for a while but to Aix 5.2 or 5,3 fairly shortly, 
but I expect no trouble.
( I did have some troubles building it, but anyway, I prefer to link it 
all statically, which wen't ok.
Only funny thing I saw was that the process hung on shutdown, which I 
traced to the syscalls
  close  and shutdown. I first got hung on shutdown, which i commented 
and then on close.
But when we shut the webserver program down, we want the process to go 
down as well
so this is no problem for me.)

We use gnat 3.16a on that machine, but we will use 5.03a later on.

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>
Björn Lundin
bnl at spray dot se