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From: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Tiny error in GNAT: wrong message about unknown discrimant
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 19:08:29 +0200
Date: 2011-05-25T19:08:29+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.vv1q8fbmule2fv@douda-yannick> (raw)

Hello,

Create a type with an unknown discriminant in the public part of a package  
(and optionally a concrete discriminant in the full definition). Declare  
an instance of that type in a procedure outside of that package, and do so  
without any initialization, and instead, erroneously add a discriminant.  
GNAT will complain “invalid constraint: type has no discriminant”. This is  
inconsistent, as the type has a discriminated view; it should instead say  
“invalid constraint: type discriminant is unknown”.

Not sure it is worth a bug report, but at least, this is probably  
confusing enough for beginners.

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             reply	other threads:[~2011-05-25 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-25 17:08 Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) [this message]
2011-05-27  8:45 ` Tiny error in GNAT: wrong message about unknown discrimant Georg Bauhaus
2011-05-27 14:14   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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