Re: Elaboration order

[eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)]

In article <314829CD.4FA9@lfwc.lockheed.com> Ken Garlington <GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com> writes:

  > Can I get a Program_Error on the initialization of X? If so, it
  > would seem like there would need to be a pragma Elaborate for
  > nearly every reference to every package exporting a subprogram!

   Yes, annd no.  IF you call a function from one package in the spec of
some other package you certainly need a pragma Elaborate or pragma
Elaborate_All.   If such a function (or a procedure) is used in the
sequence of statements of the package body, or if you call subprograms
declared earlier in the package there, or if you initialize objects in
the package body using functions from some other package, you may need
the pragmas as well.

   BUT, and this is what makes it so painless, either your program
runs or you get PROGRAM_ERROR right off the bat, so leaving out a
(potentially) required pragma Elaborate is pretty harmless.  (Unless
you don't have a debugger that will tell you where the PROGRAM_ERROR
came from.)  

   If you prefer, you can choose not to initialize objects in packages
with function calls, and not to have sequences of statements in
package bodies, but that is throwing the baby out with the bath water.

--

					Robert I. Eachus

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