Re: How to Emulate C++ Macro with Static Local Variable?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com> wrote in message
news:3F7313BD.2050602@attbi.com...
> It is an interesting question, and as a result I may actually advocate a
> language change.  If we had the equivalent of access discriminants for
> Ada subprograms, this would be much cleaner.  I think that the right
> level of implementation is an attribute.  So that
> Some_Subprogram'Called_From gets you the called from address.  It is not
> the best solution for this problem, but there may be a way to define it
> to be useful in doing stack tracebacks. (Which argues for the system
> programming annex.)

That's the idea behind AI-282. As I recall, we decided we didn't like the
original proposal, but Bob and Tuck had a better idea. (Which we're still
waiting for.)

                    Randy.