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From: Mats Weber <matsw@mail.com>
Subject: Re: generic package dilemma
Date: 1999/11/22
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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.