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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: ada-text_io.ads & text_io.ads
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 19:34:20 -0600
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"Victor Porton" <porton@narod.ru> wrote in message 
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> Shark8 wrote:
>> On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 4:38:17 PM UTC-7, Victor Porton wrote:
>>> Why on my Debian Linux installation (with GNAT 7.2.0 installed) there is
>>> no file ada-text_io.ads (which as it seems should be) but there is
>>> text_io.ads (which should be not)?
>>
>>
>> Text_IO.ads is, IIRC, a renaming of Ada.Text_IO. (It might be the other
>> way.) This was a concession to Ada 83 compatibility with the
>> advent/introduction of hierarchical library packages.
>
> But this does not answer the question why there is no ada-text_io.ads 
> files.

I think GNAT uses some weird convention for the source files for the 
runtime. (They all seem to start "a-<something>".) I'd look in the 
super-secret documentation for that if I actually needed to know the 
details.

                                         Randy.