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Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:06:40 +0100
From: Georg Bauhaus <see.reply.to@maps.futureapps.de>
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brett wrote:
> I'm trying to learn Ada 2005 with GNAT ( Linux) and are having problems with string initialization using the 
> 
> bs := 20 * " ";  
> 
> construct, which always gives an error 
> 
> "universal integer expected"

It looks like this might actually be related to
something other than your source fragment?

with Ada.Strings.Fixed;
  use Ada.Strings.Fixed;

procedure News32 is
         bs : String(1 .. 20);
begin
         bs := 20 * " ";
         bs(20) := bs(1);
end News32;

$ gnatmake -gnatwa -gnatv -gnato news32.adb
gcc-4.3 -c -gnatwa -gnatv -gnato news32.adb

GNAT 4.3.2
Copyright 1992-2007, Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Compiling: news32.adb (source file time stamp: 2010-04-17 13:02:39)
  8 lines: No errors
gnatbind -x news32.ali
gnatlink news32.ali
$