Re: gnatmake error I don't understand

[Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 04/04/2014 01:43 PM, Shark8 wrote:
>
> ADS-File
> -----------------------------------------
> Procedure Main;
>
> ADB-File
> -----------------------------------------
> with Parent;
> Procedure Main renames Parent.Subprogram;
>
> GPR-File
> -----------------------------------------
> -- ...
>     for Main use ("ADB-File.adb");
> -- ...
>
> Sure the ADS-File may be extraneous, but won't hurt anything to my knowledge.

It might help. There's a little trick some colleagues played on people who left 
their workstations unlocked. Let us say Bob is working on a program called Alice 
and has the main subprogram in the file Alice.adb:

procedure Alice is ...
end Alice;

He has it to the point that he can run it, though some essential functionality 
is missing. We come along and create Foo.ads:

package Foo is
    pragma Elaborate_Body;

    exception Bar;
end Foo;

Foo.adb:

package body Foo is
    -- Nothum, eh?
begin -- Foo
    raise Bar;
end Foo;

and Alice.ads:

with Foo;
procedure Alice;

Now when he tests Alice, she raises Foo.Bar! People can spend a lot of time 
trying to figure that out.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"He didn't get that nose from playing ping-pong."
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
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