Re: getenv in Ada

[Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>]

stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) writes:
> Tom Moran (tmoran@bix.com) wrote:
> 
> : >is there a procedure or function similar to getenv in Ada95?
> 
> : No, since many Ada targets have no such thing as an "environment".
> : But any compiler targetted to Unix or DOS or Windows probably supplies
> : a getenv function or its equivalent in a library.  Look in your
> : compiler documentation.
> 
> Or if you know the name of the function in your C library,
> then just define an appropriate Ada subprogram spec for it and use 
> pragma Import.  At link-time, make sure the appropriate
> C library gets searched.

Note that the getenv function is part of standard C, so any conforming
hosted C implementation must provide it by that name, though the
semantics are implementation-defined.  (A freestanding implementation
of C may or may not provide getenv.)

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