Re: Wide Character Problem in Ada.Numerics

[Ray Blaak <rAYblaaK@STRIPCAPStelus.net>]

Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> writes:
> Even so, I believe that I'd want to compile a specification that I
> wrote before trying to WITH it, just to make sure there are no errors.

If I recall correctly, GNAT uses a source based model for its package library,
in that the "library interface" files for package specs are simply the sources
themselves.

This means that package specs are always loaded/compiled on the fly whenever
they are WITH'd.

This turns out to have all sorts of advantages and simplifications. I don't
know if GNAT is still doing this.

There should still be a smarter way to handle source encodings however. XML
files have a starting <?xml that can be analyzed to determine the
encoding. Perhaps GNAT could do something similar based on the first possible
tokens of a spec (e.g. --, package, with, etc.)

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