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   2 --                                                                          --
   3 --                         GNAT COMPILER COMPONENTS                         --
   4 --                                                                          --
   5 --                      S Y S T E M . V A L _ E N U M                       --
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  33
  34 --  This package is used to compute the Value attribute for enumeration types
  35 --  other than those in packages Standard and System. See unit Exp_Imgv for
  36 --  details of the format of constructed image tables.
  37
  38 package System.Val_Enum is
  39 pragma Pure (Val_Enum);
  40
  41    function Value_Enumeration_8
  42      (Names   : String;
  43       Indexes : System.Address;
  44       Num     : Natural;
  45       Str     : String)
  46       return    Natural;
  47    --  Used to compute Enum'Value (Str) where Enum is some enumeration type
  48    --  other than those defined in package Standard. Names is a string with
  49    --  a lower bound of 1 containing the characters of all the enumeration
  50    --  literals concatenated together in sequence. Indexes is the address
  51    --  of an array of type array (0 .. N) of Natural_8, where N is the
  52    --  number of enumeration literals in the type. The Indexes values are
  53    --  the starting subscript of each enumeration literal, indexed by Pos
  54    --  values, with an extra entry at the end containing Names'Length + 1.
  55    --  The parameter Num is the value N - 1 (i.e. Enum'Pos (Enum'Last)).
  56    --  The reason that Indexes is passed by address is that the actual type
  57    --  is created on the fly by the expander.
  58    --
  59    --  Str is the argument of the attribute function, and may have leading
  60    --  and trailing spaces, and letters can be upper or lower case or mixed.
  61    --  If the image is found in Names, then the corresponding Pos value is
  62    --  returned. If not, Constraint_Error is raised.
  63
  64    function Value_Enumeration_16
  65      (Names   : String;
  66       Indexes : System.Address;
  67       Num     : Natural;
  68       Str     : String)
  69       return    Natural;
  70    --  Identical to Value_Enumeration_8 except that it handles types
  71    --  using array (0 .. Num) of Natural_16 for the Indexes table.
  72
  73    function Value_Enumeration_32
  74      (Names   : String;
  75       Indexes : System.Address;
  76       Num     : Natural;
  77       Str     : String)
  78       return    Natural;
  79    --  Identical to Value_Enumeration_8 except that it handles types
  80    --  using array (0 .. Num) of Natural_32 for the Indexes table.
  81
  82 end System.Val_Enum;