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From: Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Procedure Overloading
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:57:23 +0200
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On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:49:45 GMT, "Justin Schaub" <none> wrote:

>Is there a way to specify which overloaded procedure is called in the
>following example?
>
>package A
>
>type Access_Integer is access Integer;
>
>procedure compute( Num : access Integer);
>procedure compute(Num : Access_Integer);
>
>end A;
>
>procedure Test is
>   B : Access_Integer;
>begin
>   compute(B);
>end Test;
>
>The GNAT compiler allows compilation of the package A, but when compiling
>the procedure B it says that there is an ambiguous reference to the
>overloaded compute function.
>
>I have heard that you could simply do
>
>compute (Access_Integer'(B));
>
>but that didn't work either.  Any ideas?  I know it's a silly example but we
>are importing the ADA GLU bindings that have a similar issue.

Passing integers by pointers plus clashed types is indeed silly.

You can rename compute:

procedure Test is
   procedure compute_with_anonymous (Num : access Integer)
      renames A.compute;
   procedure compute_with_named (Num : Access_Integer)
      renames A.compute;

   B : Access_Integer;
begin
   compute_with_named (B);
end Test;

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Dmitry Kazakov
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