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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
Subject: Re: Elaboration order handling (Was: Bug in 'gnatmake')
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:11:14 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2013-06-19T19:11:14-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2326c0e0-0eae-4259-bca1-049666ce9653@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wcctxkt61kw.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>

On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 5:57:35 PM UTC-7, Robert A Duff wrote:

> And with standard Ada, it's even worse: the order can change for any
> reason, or for no reason.  The implementation is allowed to roll dice
> to determine the order!  Even running the exact same program without
> recompiling could change order!

You say that like it's a bad thing.  Actually, I can see a use for a compiler option to use a random number generator to determine the elaboration order (or other things that are implementation-dependent), because if the program relies on the order when it shouldn't, a random order will increase the chance that repeated testing will expose the problem.

                            -- Adam

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-20  2:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-17 10:57 Range check for type 'Integer' Peter Brooks
2013-06-17 11:23 ` Simon Clubley
2013-06-17 11:54   ` Simon Wright
2013-06-17 12:55   ` Peter Brooks
2013-06-17 13:28     ` Shark8
2013-06-17 13:45       ` Peter Brooks
2013-06-17 21:16         ` Shark8
2013-06-18 10:48     ` Stephen Leake
2013-06-17 12:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-06-17 13:23 ` Bug in 'gnatmake' (Was: Range check for type 'Integer') Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-06-17 13:32   ` Bug in 'gnatmake' Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-06-17 16:50   ` Bug in 'gnatmake' (Was: Range check for type 'Integer') Robert A Duff
2013-06-17 19:15     ` Peter Brooks
2013-06-17 21:09       ` Shark8
2013-06-17 21:22       ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-06-18  1:21         ` Peter Brooks
2013-06-18  6:33           ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-06-18  7:29       ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-06-17 18:49   ` Bug in 'gnatmake' Simon Wright
2013-06-18  9:09     ` Elaboration order handling (Was: Bug in 'gnatmake') Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-06-18 17:09       ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-18 22:52         ` Adam Beneschan
2013-06-19  1:21           ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-06-19 12:38             ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-19 20:43               ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-06-20  0:37                 ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-20 19:56                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-06-19 12:22           ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-19 15:46             ` Adam Beneschan
2013-06-19 16:41               ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-19 20:47               ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-06-19 21:36                 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-06-20  0:57                 ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-20  1:09                   ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-06-20  2:29                     ` Adam Beneschan
2013-06-20  6:08                       ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-06-20 15:11                     ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-21  5:26                       ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-06-21 15:48                         ` Adam Beneschan
2013-06-21 18:35                           ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-06-21 19:10                             ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-21 21:27                               ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-06-21 20:43                             ` Adam Beneschan
2013-06-21 21:44                               ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-06-21 23:47                                 ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-23 14:43                                   ` AdaMagica
2013-06-21 18:58                         ` null declarative parts (was: Re: Elaboration order handling) Robert A Duff
2013-06-21 20:42                           ` null declarative parts Georg Bauhaus
2013-06-20  2:11                   ` Adam Beneschan [this message]
2013-06-20 14:44                     ` Elaboration order handling (Was: Bug in 'gnatmake') Robert A Duff
2013-06-20 11:24                   ` G.B.
2013-06-20 15:23                     ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-19 21:00             ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-06-19 22:26             ` Randy Brukardt
2013-06-20  0:31               ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-20 21:36                 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-06-19 13:07         ` Bill Findlay
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