Re: Representation clause for enumeratives

["Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>]

"Robert Dewar" <dewar@gnat.com> wrote in message
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: 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.

I'd like that, but I use the AdaGIDE that comes with 3.12p, and it doesn't
allow the messages to be cut and pasted.

:  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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