Chapter 9 - Language annexes.

The annexes to the Ada95 programming language provide additional packages and in some cases attributes and pragmas to cover special application areas.

Compiler vendors do not have to provide implementations for the optional annexes (only the interfacing annex is not optional) the validation process will identify which of the annexes are supported in a compiler. It is also likely that vendors will supply partial implementations of packages specified in the optional annexes, these can be legitimately ignored during validation. This chapter will rely heavily on examples to illustrate the features provided by the annexes and their associated packages.

Note that the following section is entitled Annex B, this is because in the language reference manual Annex A describes the pre-defined language environment, the material we covered in the previous chapter.


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