Re: Anybody using Adabroker with GNAT 3.3?

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>]

Bruce Conroy <bruceconroy@earthlink.net> writes:

> 2) it also gives nonsenseical error messages when I
> try to install it. The fragment
> 
>                        declare
>                            Ok : constant Boolean
>                              := Add_Identifier (Result, Get_Token_String);
>                            pragma Warnings (Off);
>                            pragma Unreferenced (Ok);
>                            pragma Warnings (On);

This is bizarre code. I would delete the two Warnings pragmas

>                            --  here, the addentifier is really added only if
>                            --  we're not in the case where the module name
>                            --  was already defined
>                         begin
>                            Set_Default_Repository_Id (Result);
>                            Set_Initial_Current_Prefix (Result);
>                         end;
> 
> aborts the make stage with the warning Ok not referenced (when
> it clearly is.)

The semantics of Unreferenced changed from GNAT 3.15 to GNAT 5.01,
which is equivalent to gcc 3.3; it now means "not read". I think if
you delete the Warnings pragmas, this will compile.

> For what I want now, I'm going back to AdaBroker and Gnat 3.14p

always a choice.

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-- Stephe