Re: Incomplete type generic formal interactions with Implicit_Dereference

[Jere <jhb.chat@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, January 20, 2018 at 3:25:34 PM UTC-5, Simon Wright wrote:
> Jere writes:
> 
> > At some point it led to a crash in GNAT, which I reported to AdaCore, 
> > and they said they fixed it in a future rev (side note, do I need to
> > report that to the FSF team as well and how if so?).  
> 
> I don't know how many FSF GNAT contributors aren't AdaCore people, but
> it's not many! This sort of problem (deep in the compiler) isn't very
> likely to be solved by non-AdaCore folk.
> 
> I've always felt uncomfortable when I report a bug to AdaCore (which
> won't contain proprietary info, since I don't have any) that no one else
> can see it. Not sure how reporting it to FSF as well as to AdaCore would
> be received; I try to go for one or the other.
> 
> In any case, FSF won't accept reports on GNAT GPL (any more than AdaCore
> will accept reports on FSF GCC): you'd need to make sure the bug also
> happened with FSF GCC.
> 
> To report a GNAT bug to FSF, set up an account on GCC Bugzilla
> <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/index.cgi>, and raise the bug on Product:
> gcc, Component: ada.

Thanks, I submitted the bug (took a while to get an account).
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84142

My first bug report so I probably noobed it up, but hopefully they won't
be too upset if I did.

Thanks for the help!