Re: Weird Bug in Get_Line

[Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:38:55 -0700, Brian Kolden wrote:

> I came across an interesting issue in the Get_Line function. When piping
> in a file (using the linux cammand '<') GNAT "raises
> ADA.IO_EXCEPTIONS.END_ERROR : a-tigeli.adb:96".
> 
> However, the interesting issue is this only happens for a very small
> number of line lengths. I've noticed the exception is only thrown on
> lines with length 500, 501, 1000, 1001. Lines bigger or smaller don't
> seem to raise the issue, even other multiples of 500. This only is
> effected when using a file as input, copying and pasting the line into
> the terminal does not seem to trigger it.
> 
> So, is this an GNAT issue or an OS issue?
> 
> 
> with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
> procedure Test is
> 	type String_Pointer is access all String;
> 	S : String := Get_Line;
> begin
> 	null;
> end Test;

Which Gnat? Which Linux?

-- Brian