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Subject: Re: GNAT.Serial_Communication and Streams
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On 11/23/2015 06:29 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 
> Probably works on GNAT, but it's not portable Ada code. For one thing, it 
> assumes that Implementation Advice 13.3(14) is followed (Janus/Ada does not 
> follow that advice - after all, it is just advice, not a requirement). It 
> also assumes that Local is not optimized at all (there is advice that Output 
> not be optimized, but that doesn't apply to Local, and like all advice, it 
> can be ignored).
> 
> Might not matter in this case (which is clearly GNAT-specific), but 
> generally this is a pattern to avoid.

I agree, but since the OP was clearly writing GNAT-specific code, I saw no
problem with giving GNAT-specific advice.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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