From: Mats Weber <matsw@mail.com>
Subject: Re: generic package dilemma
Date: 1999/11/22
Date: 1999-11-22T17:45:13+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38398127.59E30D26@mail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 81bt4v$7cr$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> In article <3835CF7A.5604C6A3@mail.com>,
> Mats Weber <matsw@mail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Well this is a bit like people not caring about seat belts in
> a car till they have a crash.
Well, the crash is not that bad, is it ? The worst thing you can get
(provided that no tasks started at elaboration time) is Program_Error at
some point before the main procedure is called by the environment task,
is that right ? If it is, then I can live with it.
And I am not saying that I advocate using my sloppy approach, I was just
saying that reasonable compilers do it right on reasonable code. At the
time I was writing the code, there was no GNAT to tell me where to put
the pragmas, and I don't think it is reasonable to expect programmers to
get the pragmas right without a tool helping them, especially in Ada 83
where there was just Elaborate and no Elaborate_All.
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-17 0:00 generic package dilemma Riyaz Mansoor
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-18 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-11-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Mats Weber [this message]
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-20 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-18 0:00 ` Riyaz Mansoor
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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