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From: Mark Lorenzen <mark.lorenzen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: setting an address with pure?
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 02:36:03 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2015-07-14T02:36:03-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <817ea2df-90b6-4f36-ad55-115e9dc126df@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mo12eh$als$1@loke.gir.dk>

On Monday, July 13, 2015 at 9:10:10 PM UTC+2, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> It certainly seems wrong that an address clause for a hardware entity can't 
> be used in a preelaborated unit.

I have been bitten by this restriction several times and it's a real pain.

> I'd encourage you to post this problem on Ada-Comment, so that it gets on 
> the ARG agenda. (If we end up with a static function aspect, it would make 
> sense to apply it to To_Address.)

Yes please - the current restriction prevents many low-level I/O packages from having preelaborable elaboration, which transitively prevents a whole I/O library from having preelaborable elaboration.

Regards,

MarkL

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-14  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-10 11:48 Q: setting an address with pure? Simon Wright
2015-07-10 12:03 ` G.B.
2015-07-10 14:38   ` Simon Wright
2015-07-10 22:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-11  7:47   ` Simon Wright
2015-07-13 19:10     ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-14  9:36       ` Mark Lorenzen [this message]
2015-07-13 23:41   ` RasikaSrinivasan
2015-07-14  7:38     ` Simon Wright
2015-07-14  7:42       ` Simon Wright
2015-07-11 10:35 ` Q: " Brian Drummond
2015-07-11 13:30   ` Simon Wright
2015-07-11 14:03     ` AdaMagica
2015-07-11 14:27       ` Simon Wright
2015-07-13 18:53         ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-13 19:50           ` Simon Wright
2015-07-14 12:24     ` Brian Drummond
2015-07-15 15:50       ` rrr.eee.27
2015-07-15 18:45         ` Simon Wright
2015-07-16  9:21         ` Brian Drummond
2015-07-16 18:54           ` Simon Wright
2015-07-16 19:14           ` Randy Brukardt
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