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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Elaboration Problem
Date: 1999/06/09
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Date: 1999-06-09T00:00:00+00:00
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On 09 Jun 1999 06:26, cdecker@snet.net (Decker, Christian R) wrote:

> I have a constant being declared inside a generic where the value being used
> for the constant is obtained from
> a lookup table.  Later on in a subprogram the constant value is used rather
> than the lookuptable and to my suprise
> the constant is not correct.
> 
> if i do a comparison between the constant and the lookup table value in the
> same subprogram they are not equal.
> 
> Has anyone ever seen behavior like this?
> 
> Is this an elaboration problem where  the constant is being assigned a value
> before the Ada package that the
> lookup table resides in elaborates?
> 
> any suggestions?


Post some elided code, and we will try to diagnose the problem.  Without
actual code, it's difficult to understand what's going on.

Also, please state what language you're using (83 vs 95), and which
compiler.