Re: Potential Coextension Bug in GNAT

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Jere <jhb.chat@gmail.com> writes:

> with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
> with Ada.Finalization; use Ada.Finalization;
>
> procedure Hello is
>
>     type Thing_1 is new Limited_Controlled with null record;
>     
>     overriding 
>     procedure Finalize(Self : in out Thing_1) is
>     begin
>         Put_Line("Finalize Thing_1");
>     end Finalize;
>     
>     type Thing_2
>         (Other : not null access Thing_1)
>     is limited null record;
>     
>     procedure Test_Coextension_1 is
>         The_Thing : Thing_2(new Thing_1);

This is a case of 14.1/3, an allocator used to define the discriminant
of an object,

>     begin
>         Put_Line("Coextenson directly initialized");
>     end Test_Coextension_1;
>     
>     function Make_Thing_2 return Thing_2 is
>     begin
>         return (Other => new Thing_1);

I think GNAT thinks this is a case of 14.2/3, an allocator used to
define the constraint in a subtype_indication, though I'm hard put to it
to see the difference from the first case.

>     end Make_Thing_2;
>     
>     procedure Test_Coextension_2 is
>         The_Thing : Thing_2 := Make_Thing_2;
>     begin
>         Put_Line("Coextension initialized through build in place");
>     end Test_Coextension_2;
>     
> begin
>     Test_Coextension_1;
>     Test_Coextension_2;
>     Put_Line("Test Finished");
> end Hello;