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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Building an encapsulated library that uses GNAT sockets under Windows
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 21:24:30 +0100
Date: 2016-04-26T21:24:30+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lyh9eom83l.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cf442cc4-8123-4815-8b49-ce1411ff4ed0@googlegroups.com

ahlan.marriott@gmail.com writes:

> On Sunday, 24 April 2016 10:31:12 UTC+2, Simon Wright  wrote:
>> ahlan@marriott.org writes:
>> 
>> > On Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 11:16:53 PM UTC+2, Simon Wright wrote:
>> 
>> >> I'm not sure it's relevant, but I posted a bug[1] on gnatmake & static
>> >> standalone libraries; I sent AdaCore a similar report on gprbuild, no
>> >> reply.
>> 
>> > Unfortunately your bug fix isn't included in the sources maintained by
>> > AdaCore at GitHub.
>> > So thank you for the improvement :-)
>> 
>> I guess I should post an issue there, then! Thanks for the nudge.
>
> At the same time you might like to suggest that they remove the gotos
> from the code!

I could only see one (in gprbuild-link.adb). I'd be a lot more worried
about the general complexity of that code than one poor little goto.

You could raise your own issue.

> These caused me lots of problems because our IDE prohibits gotos.
> Who in their right mind uses gotos?

Who in their right mind prohibits code structures that are sometimes,
albeit rarely, the Right Way to do the job? (though I can't actually
remember the last time I used a goto).


  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-26 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-21 12:59 Building an encapsulated library that uses GNAT sockets under Windows Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-22  7:58 ` ahlan.marriott
2016-04-22  8:23   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-23  9:20     ` Ahlan
2016-04-23  9:48       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-23 14:45         ` ahlan.marriott
2016-04-23 19:56           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-23 21:16             ` Simon Wright
2016-04-24  8:13               ` ahlan
2016-04-24  8:31                 ` Simon Wright
2016-04-26 19:43                   ` ahlan.marriott
2016-04-26 20:24                     ` Simon Wright [this message]
2016-04-26 22:32                     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-04-27 22:16                     ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-27 23:43                       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-04-28  5:18                         ` J-P. Rosen
2016-04-28  5:59                           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-05-09 22:32                             ` David Thompson
2016-04-28 20:23                         ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-28 21:47                           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-04-28  5:13                       ` J-P. Rosen
2016-04-26 20:20               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-26 21:23                 ` Simon Wright
2016-04-27  6:53                   ` Simon Wright
2016-04-27  7:25                     ` ahlan
2016-04-27  8:27                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-27  9:59                     ` Simon Wright
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