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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Visibility Rules For Children
Date: 1998/10/29
Date: 1998-10-29T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3af2g49kd.fsf@mheaney.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uyaq0cnex.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov

Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

> After rearranging the test code (see below) to avoid declaring a new
> primitive subprogram C, ObjectAda 7.1.2 gives the helpful error
> message:
> 
> matt.adb: Internal: line 38 col 14 improve_context found null in
> ili_slot 1 of 12407E0, Returning unimproved context
>        (In instance of generic GC in matt.adb)

Oh, so that explains it!


> So I can't tell if Tucker Taft's favorite front end thinks this is
> legal or not :).
> 
> You do have a penchant for finding compiler bugs! 

So it seems.  I've been working on the Ada Components Library (ACL), and
have been excercising all language features together.  I found a bunch
of (what I believe to be) bugs in gnat v3.10p, but didn't bother
reporting them, as v3.11 is only a couple of weeks away.




  reply	other threads:[~1998-10-29  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-10-26  0:00 Visibility Rules For Children Matthew Heaney
1998-10-26  0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1998-10-27  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1998-10-27  0:00     ` Martin Dowie
1998-10-27  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-10-28  0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-10-29  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
1998-11-02  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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