From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: GNAT - return by anonymous access
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:51:10 +0000
Date: 2011-12-17T19:51:10+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m28vmb7z9t.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 784c67eb-a542-41b0-b23d-fca1234e56b2@n10g2000vbg.googlegroups.com
Simon Belmont <sbelmont700@gmail.com> writes:
> This ostensibly simple program prints strange results, and i'm rapidly
> losing faith in the GNAT compiler (GNAT GPL 20110428). If anyone with
> an alternative compiler can confirm or deny this output as spurious, I
> would be much obliged. In short, when the declaration of 'bar' is
> commented out, the program behaves as i would expect (output is '42'),
> but when bar is present, the output is much different (output is
> '4409264'). Or, if my line of reasoning is mixed up and this is
> actually the appropriate behavior, I would be grateful for any
> explanation.
This surely can't be correct behaviour.
Here, on Mac OS X (64-bit compilers), GNAT GPL 2011 prints 1 (0 if I
make Test_Type non-limited).
GCC 4.6.0 behaves as you expect.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-17 19:17 GNAT - return by anonymous access Simon Belmont
2011-12-17 19:51 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2011-12-18 9:08 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-12-19 23:46 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-12-20 0:14 ` Shark8
2011-12-20 23:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-12-21 0:44 ` Simon Belmont
2011-12-21 7:29 ` AdaMagica
2011-12-21 11:05 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-12-21 11:43 ` AdaMagica
2011-12-21 12:05 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-12-22 0:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-12-22 0:33 ` Simon Belmont
2011-12-22 7:11 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-12-22 22:11 ` Simon Belmont
2011-12-23 0:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-12-23 13:20 ` Simon Belmont
2011-12-27 23:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-12-20 23:53 ` anon
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