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From: AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de>
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Subject: Re: Elaboration circularity with generics
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On 15 Jan., 18:15, Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In such a case I would consider it to be a compiler bug.

No, this isn't a bug. The elaboration order is not completely defined.
If the compiler cannot find a valid order, it may reject the program.
The programmer then has to help the compiler with pragmas.

A compiler is not required to try out all sorts of elaboration orders.
This is for simplifying the compiler. There are about O(n!) orders.