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-Thread: a07f3367d7,5f6322415d6639e0 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!x29g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Adam Beneschan Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Will the defect with formal package parameters be fixed in GNAT GPL 2009? Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:31:31 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <558b7171-809b-4259-8679-4b4cff9de519@b6g2000pre.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1240947092 905 127.0.0.1 (28 Apr 2009 19:31:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:31:32 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: x29g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=duW0ogkAAABjRdnxgLGXDfna0Gc6XqmQ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.7.12-1.3.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5594 Date: 2009-04-28T12:31:31-07:00 List-Id: On Apr 28, 11:12 am, Eric Hughes 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