From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7001494ace46eea7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-22 06:32:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.174.75.178!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Overriding discriminants perplexes GNAT 3.14p Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 13:32:06 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1032701526 6038 134.91.1.34 (22 Sep 2002 13:32:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 13:32:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29255 Date: 2002-09-22T13:32:06+00:00 List-Id: Dmitry A.Kazakov wrote: : I suppose that when a bug has been corrected, it is out forever. (:-)) : [...] : If they do it, then why there are still bugs in the compiler? "The compiler" is maybe not a term that describes precisely what a compiler might be, namely a program that may change as its development incorporates new and better ideas, new features, different techniques, support for language changes etc.. So a bugfix may in priciple be removed when the part of the program that originally contained a bug is replaced. This process may introduce new and seemingly old bugs together with the new features. Don't know if this is the case with GNAT, but would you say that compilers shouldn't change when an increase in knowledge suggest a change? -- Georg --- Microsoft Windows--a fresh perspective on information hiding