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Subject: Re: trying to call HDF5 from ada -- problems with constants
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Randy Brukardt wrote:
> Since this object is going to be a constant in the Ada code, it's
> unfortunate that you can't declare it that way:
> 
>     H5T_STD_I32BE_g : constant Hid_t;
> 
> but that lack of an explicit initializer makes it illegal. (I think an
> implementation could support this if it wanted to - pragma Import can be a
> completion - but I don't know if any do.)

What? I've thought this has always been legal Ada 95. Certainly

package Import_Constant is
    I : constant Integer;
    pragma Import (C, I, "i");
end Import_Constant;

compiles without error (GNAT 3.15p/Win98).

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