From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,28b389d4503cb555 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Bryce Bardin Subject: Re: generic package dilemma Date: 1999/11/22 Message-ID: <38399869.D0350CB0@home.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 551740492 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <80u48b$ghr$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au> <3832e27f_1@news1.prserv.net> <3832E75D.5B1BA719@mail.com> <383319e8_4@news1.prserv.net> <3833F615.5AD7166C@mail.com> <383442e1_1@news1.prserv.net> <383510EA.9DFEE8B6@mail.com> <383569db_2@news1.prserv.net> <3835CF7A.5604C6A3@mail.com> <81bt4v$7cr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38398127.59E30D26@mail.com> X-Accept-Language: en,en-GB,en-US,fr,fr-BE,fr-CA,fr-FR,fr-CH,de,de-AT,de-DE,de-CH,it,es,es-AR,es-CO,es-MX,es-ES Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.alsv1.occa.home.com 943298662 24.7.50.190 (Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:24:22 PST) Organization: @Home Network MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:24:22 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Mats Weber wrote: > > Robert Dewar wrote: > > > > In article <3835CF7A.5604C6A3@mail.com>, > > Mats Weber 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.