Re: C Macros and their equivalent in Ada

[Ray Blaak <rAYblaaK@STRIPCAPStelus.net>]

Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org> writes:
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com wrote:
> |"are there Ada equivalents of the C macros like :                |
> |                                                                 |
> |__DATE__, __TIME__                                               |
>
> How about the function Ada.Calendar.Clock to get the current instant

The idea is to get the date/time the file was compiled.

Rasika, what I have often done is generate a source file from my build script
that has the version and build dates baked in. E.g. using ant:

  <property name="VERSION" value="1.1"/>

  <target name="generate.version">
    <tstamp>
      <format property="yyyyMMdd" pattern="yyyyMMdd"/>
    </tstamp>
    <echo file="src/Support/Version.adb">
package body Version is

  function Version return String is
  begin
    return "${VERSION}";
  end;

  function Build return String is
  begin
    return "${yyyyMMdd}";
  end;
end;
    </echo>
  </target>

Apologies for any errors, but it should get the idea across.

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