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From: Bryce Bardin <bbardin@home.com>
Subject: Re: generic package dilemma
Date: 1999/11/22
Date: 1999-11-22T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38399869.D0350CB0@home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38398127.59E30D26@mail.com

Mats Weber wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

It is a bit harder to live with when your multi-million line system
keeps crashing in that manner.  It takes a while to find, fix,
and rebuild.




  reply	other threads:[~1999-11-22  0:00 UTC|newest]

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       ` Mats Weber
1999-11-18  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-19  0:00           ` Mats Weber
1999-11-19  0:00             ` Vladimir Olensky
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                   ` Mats Weber
1999-11-22  0:00                     ` Bryce Bardin [this message]
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                   ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-11-23  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
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                             ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-06  0:00                               ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-03  0:00                             ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-04  0:00                               ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-19  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-19  0:00                 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-20  0:00                   ` Mats Weber
1999-11-19  0:00                 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-22  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-22  0:00                     ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-18  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-18  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
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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