Re: Bug with variant derived from interface?

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Jun 3, 10:09 am, "Alex R. Mosteo" <alejan...@mosteo.com> wrote:
> Before reporting a bug to Adacore I'd like to have your opinion. With the
> following test program I get the error below in both GPL2008/2009.
>
> procedure Bugcase is
>
>    --  type Base is abstract tagged null record;
>    --  This works
>
>    type Base is interface;
>    --  This does not work.
>
>    type Derived_Ok (X : Boolean) is new Base with null record;
>
>    type Derived_Also_Ok (X : Boolean) is new Base with record
>       Y : Integer;
>    end record;
>
>    type Derived_Bad (X : Boolean) is new Base with record
>       --  Above line is the one failing.
>       case X is
>          when others => null;
>       end case;
>    end record;
>
> begin
>    null;
> end Bugcase;
>
> $ gnatmake bugcase.adb
> gcc -c bugcase.adb
> bugcase.adb:14:09: call to abstract function must be dispatching
> gnatmake: "bugcase.adb" compilation error

I don't see any reason this program should be illegal.  The message
involving a "call to abstract function" is certainly wrong, because
there aren't any abstract function calls involved.  (Just as a wild
guess, I'm guessing that the abstract function GNAT is complaining
about is "=", and there's some special subroutine that tries to
compose the equality function for variant records that isn't handling
this case right...  did I come close???)

                               -- Adam