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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: Elaboration order
Date: 1996/03/19
Date: 1996-03-19T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <314EE48E.7F5A@escmail.orl.mmc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.827204557@schonberg

Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> "   More important, it is possible to write a legal (Ada 83 and 95)
> program which reads input from a file, command line, or even a
> terminal, before the main program is called.  If you work at it
> (exercise left to the reader) it is possible to write the program so
> that there are two different interesting and legal elaboration orders,
> and inputs that cause Program_Error with one elaboration order excute
> successfully with the other.  Of course, for toy examples, there is ..."
(snip)
> This sounds VERY bogus, I would NEVER do this kind of initialization
> at elaboration time -- this is NOT what elaboratoin is intended for,
> but rather, in my book, a gross misuse of the concept!

I completely agree, but it doesn't mean others won't do it. I was given
some code to debug once which was crashing 4 HOURS into elaboration. 
Who knows how long elaboration would have taken without the crash? 

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  reply	other threads:[~1996-03-19  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <314701A1.469D@lfwc.lockheed.com>
1996-03-15  0:00 ` Elaboration order Robert I. Eachus
1996-03-15  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-18  0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-03-18  0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1996-03-19  0:00 ` Michel Gauthier
1996-03-20  0:00 ` DenReimer
1996-03-20  0:00   ` Tucker Taft
1996-03-20  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1996-03-20  0:00     ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-03-20  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-20  0:00   ` Norman H. Cohen
     [not found] ` <Do8JDv.A2v@world.std.com>
     [not found]   ` <31494143.3825@lfwc.lockheed.com>
1996-03-15  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1996-03-18  0:00       ` Norman H. Cohen
     [not found]       ` <EACHUS.96Mar18143219@spectre.mitre.org>
1996-03-18  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-19  0:00           ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1996-03-18  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-20  0:00         ` David Emery
1996-03-15  0:00     ` Mark A Biggar
1996-03-18  0:00       ` Ken Garlington
1996-03-19  0:00         ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-03-20  0:00           ` Cordes MJ
1996-03-19  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-21  0:00               ` Ken Garlington
1996-03-21  0:00               ` Cordes MJ
1996-03-20  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1996-03-20  0:00               ` Cordes MJ
1996-03-20  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-21  0:00                   ` Ken Garlington
1996-03-20  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1996-03-22  0:00                   ` Cordes MJ
1996-03-23  0:00                 ` JP Thornley
1996-03-25  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-26  0:00                 ` JP Thornley
1996-03-19  0:00         ` Chris McKnight
1996-03-21  0:00           ` Ken Garlington
1996-03-20  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-03-22  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-03-22  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
     [not found] ` <1996Mar14.021345.9856@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com>
     [not found]   ` <314829CD.4FA9@lfwc.lockheed.com>
1996-03-15  0:00     ` Tucker Taft
1996-03-15  0:00       ` Ken Garlington
1996-03-16  0:00     ` Ted Dennison
1996-03-16  0:00     ` Joe Wierzbowski
1996-03-26  0:00       ` AdaWorks
1996-03-26  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-26  0:00           ` IO in Pure packages, debugging Laurent Guerby
1996-03-26  0:00           ` Elaboration order Robert A Duff
1996-03-26  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-26  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
1996-03-26  0:00     ` Laurent Guerby
1996-03-26  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-15  0:00 Elaboration Order Wolf-Dieter Heker
1999-11-15  0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-11-15  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-16  0:00     ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-11-20  0:00       ` Simon Wright
1999-11-15  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-16  0:00   ` Wolf-Dieter Heker
1999-11-16  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-16  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-20  0:00       ` Simon Wright
1999-11-22  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-23  0:00           ` Mats Weber
1999-11-16  0:00     ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-03-18  0:00 Elaboration order Jean-Pierre Rosen
1996-03-21  0:00 ` Ken Garlington
     [not found] <DoDMLL.1F9@world.std.com>
1996-03-18  0:00 ` Chris McKnight
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