Re: Will the defect with formal package parameters be fixed in GNAT GPL 2009?

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Apr 28, 11:12 am, Eric Hughes <eric....@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is the Ada community's problem--not only the actual defect but
> also the practical difficulty of even filing a report on it.

I have some sympathy for your position.  If I encountered a bug, I'd
also look on the web site first to figure out how to get support,
report bugs, etc.  It wouldn't occur to me to try an -h or --help
option, as some other poster mentioned; the traditional meaning of
those options (in Unix-type systems) has been to tell me how to use a
program, not how to report bugs in it, so anyone who thinks you or I
"just should have known" to try that approach is wrong.

Nevertheless, you did post about the problem here ten months ago, and
you could have easily asked this same newsgroup how to report the bug
to the compiler maintainers, but you didn't.

                               -- Adam