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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: generic package dilemma
Date: 1999/11/23
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In article <38398127.59E30D26@mail.com>,
  Mats Weber <matsw@mail.com> wrote:
> Well, the crash is not that bad, is it ? The worst thing you
> can get provided that no tasks started at elaboration time) is
> Program_Error at some point before the main procedure is
> called by the environment task, is that right ? If it is, then
> I can live with it.

The trouble is the *I* here. The real scenario is as follows.
A large and complex program is developed without systematic
use of these pragmas. In practice you will find a few Elaborate
pragmas presumably stuck in to correct problems with a different
compiler.

Then you port to a new compiler, and you get Program_Error.
Finding and fixing these program errors can be quite complex!




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