Re: Wide Character Problem in Ada.Numerics

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Apr 24, 1:03 am, Jean-Pierre Rosen <r...@adalog.fr> wrote:
> Martin Krischik a écrit :>> This is the line that has the bracket notation definition of pi in
> >> it.
>
> >> Does anyone know what is going on?  Why is there an error in a system
> >> file?
>
> > Yes - I saw that to - GNAT produces this error if utf-8 (-gnatW8) is
> > used for source code. Best is to file a bug report.
>
> Since, with the source model, specifications are recompiled every time
> you need them, so is Ada.Numerics. With -gnatW8, you are telling the
> compiler you are using utf-8, but the source of Ada.Numerics uses
> bracket notation - hence the error.

Wait a minute... are you saying that in GNAT, you cannot WITH a
package unless the source of the WITH'ed package uses the same
encoding as the source of the package doing the WITH'ing?  Ouch.  This
somehow seems to run counter to the whole philosophy of abstraction
that packages are supposed to provide.

                                                   -- Adam