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From: mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn)
Subject: Problem with instantiating generic procedure
Date: 1999/07/17
Date: 1999-07-17T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7mqfcq$9og$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> (raw)

Sorry, but after searching through the RM for almost an hour, I still
haven't figured out what I do wrong here and how I should fix this.
I declare in a package spec a procedure A and I want to implement the
procedure body of A by instantiating a generic procedure G. The following
is the shortest possible program that reproduces my problem:

-- bug.ads --
package Bug is
   
   procedure A;
   
end Bug;
-- bug.adb --
package body Bug is
   
   generic
   procedure G;
   
   procedure G is
   begin
      null;
   end G;
   
   procedure A is new G;
   
end Bug;
-------------

GNAT 3.11p on Linux insists on the following error message:

bug.adb:1:14: missing body for "A" declared at bug.ads:3
bug.adb:11:14: "A" conflicts with declaration at bug.ads:3

What is wrong with simply implementing a procedure declared
in the spec file in the body file by instantiating it from
a generic procedure of the exact same signature? Both A and G
have no parameters, so how can there be a conflict?

It would be nice if GNAT wrote out explicitely the two conflicting
sides, each time it uses the word "conflict" in an error message.

Any idea what is wrong here?

Markus

-- 
Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>




             reply	other threads:[~1999-07-17  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-07-17  0:00 Markus Kuhn [this message]
1999-07-17  0:00 ` Problem with instantiating generic procedure Vladimir Olensky
1999-07-17  0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-07-18  0:00   ` Markus Kuhn
1999-07-18  0:00     ` Florian Weimer
1999-07-19  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-19  0:00         ` Florian Weimer
1999-07-18  0:00     ` Chad R. Meiners
1999-07-18  0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-07-19  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-07-19  0:00   ` Markus Kuhn
1999-07-23  0:00     ` Tucker Taft
1999-07-19  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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