Re: gnatmake problem

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Sat, 01 May 2010 22:11:56 +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov writes on comp.lang.ada:
>> OK, I have installed Debian and reproduced the problem:
> 
> Out of curiosity, did you find the installation difficult or easy?
> 
> [...]
>> gcc version 4.3.2 (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 
>> 
>> Platform:
>> ---------
>> Debian 5, x86
> 
> What is x86?  i386 and amd64 are quite different, so the generic "x86"
> is not helpful.

i386, however when GNAT crashes compiling *.abs files it does that
independently on the platform.

> [...]
>> I cannot submit it to bugzilla because I don't know how to post source
>> files. I tried to place them into the comment, but it was rejected by
>> the bugzilla.
>>
>> GNAT Pro 6.3.1. compiles it successfully.
> 
> You can report the problem to the Debian bug tracking system;

I did.

> instructions at http://bugs.debian.org.  You can attach source files in
> your email but it would help if you could isolate the trigger for the
> bug in a small test case (as opposed to thousands of lines for the
> complete closure of the file you were trying to compile).

Unfortunately it cannot be sufficiently reduced. I removed everything from
the package body, but it is still a lot of *.ads files. Presumably the
problem is with generics (the most frequent reason), but I cannot tell.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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