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Subject: Re: no code generation for c strings
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On 03.06.16 11:37, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 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.

If "&" will be become a function call, then

  S : constant char_array := ('h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', nul);