Re: Please help! Aggregate Object - dynamically allocating the objects inside, doesnt work

["David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

Craig Garrett wrote in message <01be3b99$6fe27620$5104fbd1@longslide>...
>I need help.  I am probably doing something stupid, but here is my
>situation:
>
>I have an aggregate object (Ada95) called Time_Manager.  Its a tagged
>record, and two of its fields are pointers (access types) to different
>classes.  In a procedure I am calling start that is in the Time_Manager
>package, I try to use the new operator to dynamically allocate these fields
>and get actual objects in there, not just pointers.  Pretty standard right?
> Its just aggregate objects - thats all.  Anyway, the compiler is choking
>on it, where I call the new operator.
>
What compiler are you using?

The following code compiles just fine with GNAT.


David C. Hoos, Sr.

-- begin source code --
with Ada.Calendar;
package Sim_Clock is
   type Object is tagged
      record
         Current_Time      : Long_Float := 0.0;
         Last_Time         : Long_Float := 0.0;
         Time_Since_Last   : Long_Float := 0.0;
         Last_Time_Of_Day    : Ada.Calendar.Time;
         Current_Time_Of_Day : Ada.Calendar.Time;
      end record;
   type Object_Pointer is access Object;
end Sim_Clock;

with Ada.Calendar;
package Wall_Clock is
   type Object is tagged
      record
         Current_Time,
           Last_Time         : Ada.Calendar.Time := Ada.Calendar.Clock;
         Time_Since_Last   : Duration := 0.0;
      end record;
   type Object_Pointer is access Object;
end Wall_Clock;

with Sim_Clock;
with Wall_Clock;
package Time_Manager is
   type Object is tagged
      record
         Wall_Time         : Wall_Clock.Object_Pointer;
         Sim_Time          : Sim_Clock.Object_Pointer;
      end record;
   type Object_Pointer is access Object;
   procedure Start(This_Time_Manager : in out Object_Pointer);
end Time_Manager;

package body Time_Manager is
   procedure Start(This_Time_Manager : in out Object_Pointer) is
   begin
      This_Time_Manager.Wall_Time := new Wall_Clock.Object;
      This_Time_Manager.Sim_Time  := new Sim_Clock.Object;
   end Start;
end Time_Manager;
-- end source code --