Re: What's wrong with this code?

[dennison@telepath.com]

In article <7fiegr$43q$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> In article <7fi85m$sb3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
>   okellogg@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> > Dear colleagues:
> >
> > I can't find what wrong with this code (see full declaration of type Alarm.)
> > Perhaps someone would like to comment?
>
> >     type Alarm is tagged limited
> >         record
> >             -- This compiles alright:
> >             Semaphore : Alarm_Semaphore (Alarm'Access);
> >
> >             -- But here, GNAT 3.11p says:
> >             --  "Access" attribute cannot be applied to type
> >             Alarm_State_Pool : Alarm_State_Pool_At :=
> >                (Snafu => new Snafu_State (Alarm'Access),
> >                 Data => new Data_State (Alarm'Access),
> >                 Proposal => new Proposal_State (Alarm'Access));
> >
> >         end record;
> >
> > end Alarm_Model;
>
> That's probably because 'Access can't be applied to a type. :-)

Drat.

Before anyone else flames me: yes, I had forgotten about the "current
instance" rule. From what I can see in the LRM its supposed to be valid
anywhere "within the declarative region of a type_declaration". So now I'm
also curious why the compiler doesn't like it.

I tried adding the following declarations:
    type Alarm_List is array (1..2) of Alarm_P;

    type Alarm is tagged limited
    ...
            Al : Alarm_List := (others => Alarm'Access);

And got this error (on the "Al" field) instead:
alarm_model.ads:52:43: non-local pointer cannot point to local object


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