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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: no code generation for c strings
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 11:37:18 +0200
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On 03/06/2016 11:23, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
>
>>> S : constant char_array := to_c ("hello" & nul);
>>
>> S : constant char_array := "hello" & char'val (0);
>
> Are you saying this will produce the desired code?

In any case it should be better than calling a function, Ada still does 
not have compile-time ones.

A decent compiler/linker should use an initialized section here. If not, 
you could try an array aggregate instead...

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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