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From: "Alejandro R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.com>
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Subject: Re: Referring to the instance of a generic parent package
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 11:42:26 +0200
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On 23/10/19 17:55, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> On 10/23/19 2:54 PM, Alejandro R. Mosteo wrote:
>> I have the following situation:
>>
>>     generic
>>     package Parent is ... end Parent;
>>
>>     generic
>>        with package P is new Parent (<>);
>>     package Sibling is ... end Sibling;
>>
>>     generic
>>     package Parent.Child is
>>
>>        package A_Sibling is new Sibling (Parent);
>>        --  Works in GNAT CE 2019
>>        --  Error in FSF 7.4:
>>        --    "Expect package instance to instantiate formal"
>>
>>     end Parent.Child
> 
> GNAT 9.1.0 also gives this error.

Thanks for the data point.