Re: Gnat Error: intrinsic operator can only apply to numeric types

["Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net>]

"Marin David Condic" <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in message
news:40CEEFCF.7060703@noplace.com...
> In using Gnat 3.15p on Windows with GPS v1.4.0, I encountered a problem
> when trying to use the package System. I get a compiler error message
> that reads "intrinsic operator can only apply to numeric types" in
> reference to the following code in System:
>
>    function "<"  (Left, Right : Address) return Boolean;
>     function "<=" (Left, Right : Address) return Boolean;
>     function ">"  (Left, Right : Address) return Boolean;
>     function ">=" (Left, Right : Address) return Boolean;
>     function "="  (Left, Right : Address) return Boolean;
>
>     pragma Import (Intrinsic, "<");
>     pragma Import (Intrinsic, "<=");
>     pragma Import (Intrinsic, ">");
>     pragma Import (Intrinsic, ">=");
>     pragma Import (Intrinsic, "=");
>
> Commenting out the pragmas get you past this, but then, of course,
> everything in the Gnat side that depended on System is officially out of
> date. This seems unacceptable as a fix.

It would also be unacceptable because after commenting out these pragmas,
you would have to provide bodies for these operators.

> Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a fix or workaround?

I've used 3.14p and 3.3.1, and I have never seen this. It is also more than
a little surprising, for the GNAT version of system has had these
declarations for years.