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From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: Actual subprogram and generic instantiation in same unit
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:20:30 +0100
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On Monday 27 October 2003 13:33, Oliver Kellogg wrote:
> To my amazement the following compiles:
>
> -- file: inst.ads
> with Generic_Package;  -- takes a parameterless generic formal procedure P
>
> package Lump is
>
>    procedure Manipulate;
>
>    package Instantiation is new Generic_Package (P => Manipulate);
>
> end Lump;
>
>
> Poor compiler has to instantiate a package using a procedure
> whose body it has not yet seen...

Why should that be a problem?  After all, it has all the information it needs
to generate calls to the procedure.

Duncan.