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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada -vs- GNAT
Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 07:41:27 +0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 25 May 2002 02:47:52 GMT, Steve Doiel wrote:
> 
> Recently I did some work with XML/Ada and found a few pieces code dependent
> on the GNAT specific attributes 'img and 'unrestricted_access.  I was able
> to make the code work with ObjectAda (and any other Ada compiler) by making
> a few small changes to the sources.

I think you should submit it to the developers of XML/Ada so they can
use it.

The point is that sometimes things gets more easy and portable if you
use GNAT. Especially IO operations on different platforms. At the moment
I use some GNAT procedures in my program due to this. But of course if
somebody else would like to compile it (when I release it) with a
different compiler, then I would really like to have a copy of the
changes they did to make it compiler independant. The 'Img I only use
for debugging purposes as it is faster to put in a 

   Put_Line (Some_Value'Img)

which will be removed as soon as I locate the problem.

Preben