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From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: ada/5907: The Ada front end lacks a proper manual
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The following reply was made to PR ada/5907; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: <gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org>,  <gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org>,  <brosgol@gnat.com>
Subject: Re: ada/5907: The Ada front end lacks a proper manual
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 18:59:53 +0000 (GMT)

 On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Florian Weimer wrote:
 
 > We would need a couple of hundered macros, I think.  For example, the
 > preprocessing rewrites all strings like "hello.adb" to "HELLO.ADB",
 > "hello.o" to "HELLO.OBJ", and so on.  If you had to write
 > "@helloadb{}" and "@helloo{}", reading the sources would become rather
 > difficult.
 
 Define a macro that's used like @vmsfile{hello.adb}{HELLO.ADB}.
 
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 Joseph S. Myers
 jsm28@cam.ac.uk