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Subject: Re: AdaCL vs GNAT2007: "Deep_Tag_Finalize" not declared in
  "Finalization_Implementation" error
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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:52:05 -0500
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Erik J Pessers <vt6145886@tele2allin.be> writes:

> Trying GNAT2007 iso the GCC GNAT compiler poses one issue: the Ada
> code I'm using relies on the ADACL library, and in particular the CG
> (garbage collection) modules. These seem to depend on a routine
> "Deep_Tag_Finalize" which is available in the Debian distro
> gcc-gnat compiler, but does not seem to be available in Gnat2007
> (scanned the adainclude directory but found no match).
>
> Compiling using Gnat2007 results in:
>
>     bash-3.1$ gnatmake utils-booleans-dsc
>     gcc -c -gnato -fstack-check -O2 utils-booleans-dsc.adb
>     ...
>     gcc -c -gnato -fstack-check -O2 adacl.ads
>     gcc -c -gnato -fstack-check -O2 adacl-gc.adb
>     adacl-gc.adb:105:13: "Deep_Tag_Finalize" not declared in \
>        "Finalization_Implementation"
>     gnatmake: "adacl-gc.adb" compilation error

Since "Finalization_Implementation" is _not_ a standard Ada package,
but is a compiler-specific package, the best solution is for ADACL to
stop using it.

Why does ADACL need it? 

Alternately, you may be able to simply copy the source for
Deep_Tag_Finalize, and put it in an ADACL package.

-- 
-- Stephe