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From: Mats Weber <matsw@mail.com>
Subject: Re: generic package dilemma
Date: 1999/11/19
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Matthew Heaney wrote:

> I just assumed that whenever you instantiate a package (inside another
> package), that you have to pragma Elaborate_All the generic unit.
> 
> But you seem to advocate only a conditional application of this
> guideline.  When specifically do you recommend using Elaborate_All,
> versus not needing to bother?

Actually, I have used pragma Elaborate(_All) maybe three times since
1983. I have always let the compiler figure out an elaboration order,
which turned out to be just fine in almost all cases with DEC Ada,
Verdix and GNAT. I know this approach is not striclty portable, but I
don't care and I still think that some minimal automatic elaboration
order generation should be in the language standard (see my thesis).