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#### 8.1.2 Categorization Pragmas

Library units can be categorized according to the role they play in a distributed program. A categorization pragma is a library unit pragma that restricts the kinds of declarations that can appear in a library unit and possibly in its child units, as well as the legal semantic dependences that the categorized unit can have. There are several categorization pragmas:

- Remote_Call_Interface
- Remote_Types
- Shared_Passive
- Pure

The following paragraphs do not present the detailed semantics of these pragmas (formal details will be found in the Ada Reference Manual). Their purpose is to give the reader an intuitive overview of the purpose of these pragmas. If a library unit is not categorized, this unit is called a normal unit and plays no special role in the distributed application. Such a unit is duplicated on any partition in which it is mentioned.

A parenthetical remark: to avoid the need for specific run-time libraries for the DSA, the notion of remote rendezvous does not exist in Ada: tasks cannot be invoked directly from one partition to another. Therefore, declarations of task types and general protected types with entries are not allowed in categorized Ada library units.