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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:40:53 +0200
From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@nospam.please>
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Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
> Duncan Sands wrote:
>>...
>>It could well be memory corruption or the use of an uninitialized
>>variable. These both have a tendency to manifest themselves differently in
>>the debugger. Try running your program under valgrind.
> 
> 
> Also check Gnat.Debug_Pools (Is it already in Gnat 3.15p?)

Yes, Gnat.Debug_Pools seems to be in 3.15p (at least the .ads/.adb files 
are in adainclude). I'll try that, or valgrind, also -gnatVa. (It would 
be nice to have a compiler option telling GNAT to use Debug_Pool for all 
access types by default, but I couldn't find one.)

I'm grateful for your advice. Thanks to the Ada run-time checks it has 
been a while since I had to fight with this kind of bug, but I hope it 
will come back to me -- and then go away again :-)

-- 
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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