Re: Representation clause for enumeratives

[Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com>]

In article <27eh6.3787$y03.254014@news.flash.net>,
  "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org> wrote:
> : P.S. The one undesirable behavior in GNAT that I see, and
> : will fix is that the error flag is not clearly placed on
> : the particular literal that is causing trouble!
>
> Which was also my point.

OK, well it would help to be a little less obscure when making
such points in future :-) In particular, the flag is placed on
the representation clause itself, not on the wrong literal, so
it is not wrongly placed, just not as specifically placed as
you might like.

What is quite helpful is to quote -gnatl output in such cases
in comp.lang.ada listings, because then it is very clear what
the message is applying to, if you only quote the brief errors
we don't really know what line numbers are being referenced,
because we don't have the full program.

In fact I would not have noticed this at all if I had not
bothered to make a full example and compile it myself!


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