Re: Put the access value

[briot.emmanuel@gmail.com]

> > In Ada, a pointer is not an integer and has no 'Image attribute.
> 
> Sure it does.  ;-)


Hey, that's GNAT specific again, no other compiler implements that yet ! :-)

This is very nice, indeed. We (and I would guess a lot of others) have come up with some code-generation scheme to generate those output routines for our types.
We use libadalang for now (distributed with GNAT). Although our home-made solution
is mode flexible (with binary or text output, for instance, as well as backward compatibility with older type definitions), having this service part of the compiler definitely removes some of the needs for custom frameworks...

Some of the difficulties I had in implementing the code generation was for generics and their instances, or class-wide types. Are those handled natively
by the compiler now, when using 'Image ?


Thanks for letting us know Bob