Trouble with overriding and class-wide parameters

[Yves Bailly <kafka.fr@laposte.net>]

Hello all,

Here's a problem I'm encountering, while developping a (rather
huge) library using Ada 2005, for now using only the latest GNAT
GPL compiler from AdaCore (i.e. GNAT-2006).

Given a first package, defining a tagged type:
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package Pkg is
   type Some_Type is tagged null record;
   not overriding
   procedure Setup(st: not null access Some_Type;
                   p :          access Some_Type'Class);
end Pkg;
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The procedure just Put_Line() a string to identify itself.

Then take a second package, with a type derived from the previous:
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with Pkg; use Pkg;
package Sub_Pkg is
   type Sub_Type is new Some_Type with null record;
   not overriding
   procedure Setup(st: not null access Sub_Type;
                   p :          access Sub_Type'Class);
end Sub_Pkg;
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Here again the procedure just print something to identify itself.

Now the test program:
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with Pkg; use Pkg;
with Sub_Pkg; use Sub_Pkg;
procedure Test is
   st: aliased Sub_Type;
begin
   st.Setup(null);
end Test;
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I would expect the call to Setup() to invoke the Sub_Pkg.Setup()
procedure, as "st" is of type Sub_Type. However the procedure
actually called is Pkg.Setup(), as shown by the output :
Pkg.Setup(Some_Type)

What am I missing? I suspect the value "null" to be part of this,
but I can't find a workaround.

Sorry in advance if it's a silly question, I have a huge background
of C++ and not yet very skilled with Ada type system.

Thanks for any hint !

Best regards,

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