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From: "Peter C. Chapin" <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu>
Subject: Re: GNAT.Regpat problem.
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On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Simon Wright wrote:

> Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> writes:
>
> There's certanly something fishy with 4.5.2; it appears not to notice
> when it goes off the end, heaven knows where the extra elements of the
> matcher go.
>
> Looking at the GCC SVN log for s-regpat.adb, I see
>
> 2010-06-21  Emmanuel Briot  <briot@adacore.com>
>
> 	* s-regpat.adb (Link_Tail): Fix error when size of the pattern matcher
> 	is too small.

Thanks to all who replied to my original post. It seems like there is a 
known bug in GNAT.Regpat that affects certain GNAT versions. I can deal with 
that.

Thanks again.

Peter