Re: Selective suppression of warnings --- gnat on GNU/Linux

["(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 30/12/2008 03:13, in article
7a6baa71-80e8-4f3a-80b6-34935bda2fc0@r10g2000prf.googlegroups.com, "Michael
Mounteney" <gate02@landcroft.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello, I am trying to build an application of which some of the source
> is automatically translated from Pascal, on the fly.  The problem is
> that the automatically-translated source is causing a lot of spurious
> warnings about declarations not being used.  This is because the
> Pascal code has many instances of:
> 
>      type
>           somerange = 1..10;
>           somestruct = record ... end;
> 
> which is translated into Ada as
> 
>      type somerange is new integer range 1 .. 10;
> 
>      type somestruct is record ... end record;
> 
> but the problem is that any operators such as + and = are not visible
> in other units.  The solution to that is to rename the operators in
> the client units, thus:

No, the problem is that the Pascal subrange type declarations have been
wrongly translated. The Pascal declaration:

  type  somerange = 1..10;

Means, in Ada:

   SUBtype  somerange is Integer range 1..10;

Make this change and the Ada type compatibility problems will magically
vanish.
-- 
Bill Findlay
<surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk