From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,571930b4ff0bc1ee X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-31 11:32:21 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!newsmst01!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr16.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Ken Garlington" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3AC03CCE.70E3C2D5@mida.se> <3AC18DD1.EF25CE42@mida.se> <5mzw6.415$1H6.72722473@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com> <3AC2EB17.33AAEC0A@mida.se> Subject: Re: Compile time executed functions Organization: ex-FlashNet, now Prodigy X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.65.210.62 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr16.news.prodigy.com 986067033 6207069 65.65.210.62 (Sat, 31 Mar 2001 14:30:33 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 14:30:33 EST Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:30:33 GMT Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6295 Date: 2001-03-31T19:30:33+00:00 List-Id: "Simon Wright" wrote in message news:x7vofuknypt.fsf@smaug.pushface.org... : "Ken Garlington" writes: : : > It's the part about "pasting the output" that seems odd. Why not : > have it generate a stand-alone Ada *package* (e.g, BlahBlah)? We do : > this now in a number of cases. In fact, you can have an automated : > build script that generates the code, updates the CM system with it, : > then does the things you usually expect in such a script (extract : > source from CM system, compile, link...) : : The part that worries me about that is the 'updates the CM system with : it'. I can see that there _are_ arguments, it's just that I've also : seen projects keep the generated code in the CM system *and then : modify it by hand*. Note the part about automatically extracting the source from the CM system. Usually, we set this up so that it would overwrite any "hand-edited" versions in the same directory.