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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: GNAT Stream Read processing problem
Date: 1999/01/06
Date: 1999-01-06T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3u2y4wipl.fsf@mheaney.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 76uv4j$njr$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com

dewar@gnat.com writes:

> Surely if you use -gnatv to point out the EXACT location of
> the error:
> 
>     30.          Long_Integer'Read(S, Data(ndx).elements);
>                                            |
>         >>> expected type "Standard.integer"
>         >>> found type "Standard.long_integer"
> 
> that should be enough of a clue, it is VERY specifically
> telling you that the subscript of Data must be of type
> Standard.integer, and you are using long_integer.
> 
> While you are learning Ada 95, use -gnatv as a matter of
> course to tell exactly where the error message is being
> posted. GNAT goes to great pains to try to post the error
> in exactly the most helpful place, take advantage of this!


If you use emacs with gnat, then C-x ` (the command "next-error") will
take you to the exact line and column containing the error.

Emacs is not just an editor, it's a way of life.  Ya know?




  reply	other threads:[~1999-01-06  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-01-05  0:00 GNAT Stream Read processing problem Bruce Detter
1999-01-05  0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-05  0:00   ` Bruce Detter
1999-01-06  0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-06  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
1999-01-06  0:00   ` Elaborate compile-time error messages (was: GNAT Stream Read ...) Larry Kilgallen
1999-01-06  0:00     ` Marin David Condic
1999-01-11  0:00       ` Georg Bauhaus
1999-01-13  0:00         ` Simon Wright
1999-01-06  0:00     ` bourguet
1999-01-07  0:00     ` dewar
1999-01-07  0:00       ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-01-10  0:00         ` robert_dewar
1999-01-06  0:00   ` GNAT Stream Read processing problem Bruce Detter
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