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Annex F

(normative)

Information Systems

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   {information systems} This Annex provides a set of facilities relevant to Information Systems programming. These fall into several categories:
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   See also: 3.5.9, ``Fixed Point Types''; 3.5.10, ``Operations of Fixed Point Types''; 4.6, ``Type Conversions''; 13.3, ``Operational and Representation Attributes''; A.10.9, ``Input-Output for Real Types''; B.4, ``Interfacing with COBOL''; B.3, ``Interfacing with C''; Annex G, ``Numerics''.
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   The character and string handling packages in Annex A, ``Predefined Language Environment'' are also relevant for Information Systems.

Implementation Advice

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   If COBOL (respectively, C) is widely supported in the target environment, implementations supporting the Information Systems Annex should provide the child package Interfaces.COBOL (respectively, Interfaces.C) specified in Annex B and should support a convention_identifier of COBOL (respectively, C) in the interfacing pragmas (see Annex B), thus allowing Ada programs to interface with programs written in that language.

Extensions to Ada 83

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{extensions to Ada 83} This Annex is new to Ada 95.

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