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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: GNAT Problem with variable length Arrays
Date: 2000/03/22
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In article <87ya7bgzbu.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>,
  Florian Weimer <fw-usenet@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> wrote:
> "Torsten Leistikow" <leistikow@stn-atlas.de> writes:
>
> > Is this an exspected behaviour of the compiler, or some kind
of a bug?
>
> It's certainly a bug.  Sometimes, when using a type before it
is
> actually declared, GNAT runs into an infinite loop.  Another
(quite
> silly) example is:
>
> package type_test_problem is
>
>    type Some_Type_Class is private;
>
> private
>
>    type Some_Type_Class is new Some_Type_Class'Class;
>
> end type_test_problem;

Well you should certainly report *any* bug to report@gnat.com,
although this one must be due to using an old version of GNAT.

test_problem.ads:7:09: full view of type must be definite
subtype
test_problem.ads:7:47: type cannot be used in its own definition



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