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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: generic package dilemma
Date: 1999/12/03
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In article <828mu3$8i0$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> wrote:

> you try to port to another system). In fact in GNAT we provide
> the -p (pessimistic elaboration order) option for the binder.
> This option is relevant only if you are using fully dynamic
> elaboration (compiling with the -gnatE switch), and it causes
> the binder to choose what it thinks is the WORST possible
> elaboration order, to help smoke out such lurking bugs :-)

Interesting. Have you given any thought to doing this for other
implemetation-defined things, like ordering of record fields and
caching of global data?

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