Re: How are system parameters entered into s-taprop.adb?
On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 18:54 +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com> writes:
> > Another stupid question: How is the system parameter ENOMEM
> > communicated from s-osinte-gnu.ads to s-taprop-gnu.adb?
>
> ENOMEM is not a variable, it is a constant, sometimes defined as a C
> macro in libc, in which case it cannot be imported.
I know that ENOMEM is a constant, defined in a header file, but did not
know that it cannot be imported. Ada does not seem to have the #include
<file.h> directive, like C does.
> In GNAT it is
> (re-)defined as a constant by the various incarnations of the package
> System.OS_Interface, the spec of which is one of the files
> s-osinte-*.ads.
I've updated that file for GNU/Hurd now!
> > There is no with statement in the .adb file and adding with
> > System.OS_Interface; use System.OS_Interface;
>
> The with statement is in the spec of the package
> System.Task_Primitives.Operations, in s-taprop.ads, and the use
> statement is in the body, in the appropriate s-taprop-*.adb.
OK, things getting clearer and clearer, but still foggy ;)
Any easy way to print e.g. the ENOMEM constants and the Results variable
(for debugging purposes)? Printing seems to be cumbersome in ADA, as
some other languages...
> You should really learn how Ada packages work :)
It's on the TODO list, TTT (Things Take Time) :-)
Looks like you have to scan several files to get an idea about package
structures.
One thing, still puzzling: .adb vs .ads files, what controls which ones
does get compiled?
Anyway, thanks for your replies!
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