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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: The Dreaded "Missing Subunits"
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Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:

> The sad thing is that although Ada is very portable in many
> respects, the community of compiler vendors can't agree on
> file-naming conventions.  Contrast with C, where everybody knows
> what .h and .c mean.

Is this a joke? cos it's clear that .h and .c have absolutely _no_
semantic content! (except, I suppose, that a compiler knows it's not
sensible to compile a header on its own ..

   smaug[11]$ gcc -c cpu_private.h   
   gcc: Compilation of header file requested

)