Re: A bug in Gnat, or in my code?

["Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>]

Preben Randhol wrote:

> I see. I think you have a bug in that you forgot to trim the text.

No, that's intentional. There might be cases where the value must be 
used as it is, with possible spaces. In fact, I just removed the Trim on 
the name. I improved another part of the program and then the trimming 
became unnecessary.

> Anyhow I made a test of your program and ran it on gnat 3.3.3 from
> Debian and it works there. No crash. So maybe it is only the packaging
> of RedHat? A program shouldn't segmentation fault and this is typically
> an indication of a packaging/installation error.

The Trim you inserted hides the bug, because Trim returns a more 
conventional null string that doesn't cause problems in 
To_Unbounded_String. After I removed it, your program crashes for me.

Did you try my test program on that version of Gnat?

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