From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.70.134.229 with SMTP id pn5mr49925904pdb.5.1436866563791; Tue, 14 Jul 2015 02:36:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.20.148 with SMTP id 20mr518278qgj.20.1436866563551; Tue, 14 Jul 2015 02:36:03 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!qs7no5051734igc.0!news-out.google.com!4ni81121qgh.1!nntp.google.com!e109no872213qge.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 02:36:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=193.163.1.105; posting-account=Srm5lQoAAAAEMX9rv2ilEKR6FDPapmSq NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.163.1.105 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <817ea2df-90b6-4f36-ad55-115e9dc126df@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: setting an address with pure? From: Mark Lorenzen Injection-Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 09:36:03 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:26813 Date: 2015-07-14T02:36:03-07:00 List-Id: 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