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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: How could I name it ?
Date: 1998/11/09
Message-ID: <ug1bsohf9.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>#1/1
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References: <3645C3C4.2A05@club-internet.fr>
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1998-11-09T00:00:00+00:00
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Fran�oise & Herv� BITTEUR <hbitteur@club-internet.fr> writes:

> Please, how could I name the item 'Ptr', belonging to task body 'T' in
> the following entry point. I cannot name it simply 'Ptr' since the entry
> point already has a 'Ptr' as parameter.
> 
> The various constructions, all flagged hereunder with comment "Not OK",
> lead to the GNAT compilation message :
> 	invalid prefix in selected component "T"
> 
> How come ? 
> Besides, this is a simplified old piece of code (Ada 83) that used to
> compile correctly on VaxAda.
> 

Compiling with ObjectAda 7.1.2 gives no errors for the code below. So
you've got a GNAT bug (which I also reproduced).

> Thanks for any clue.
> --Herv� BITTEUR
> 
> ---- cut here -------------------------------------------------------
> procedure Test is
>    type T;
>    type T_Ptr is access T;
>    task type T is
>       entry Point (Ptr : in T_Ptr);
>    end T;
>    task body T is
>       Ptr : T_Ptr;
>       My_Ptr : T_Ptr;
>    begin
>       accept Point
>         (Ptr : in T_Ptr)
>       do
>          --Ptr := Ptr;                    -- not OK, of course
>          My_Ptr := Ptr;                 -- OK, but I don't like it !
> 
>          T.Ptr := Ptr;                  -- not OK
>          T.My_Ptr := Ptr;               -- not OK
> 
>          Test.T.Ptr := Ptr;             -- not OK
>          Test.T.My_Ptr := Ptr;          -- not OK
>       end Point;
>    end T;
> begin
>    null;
> end Test;
> --  gnatmake -g test.adb
> --  gcc -c -g test.adb
> --  test.adb:17:10: invalid prefix in selected component "T"
> --  test.adb:18:10: invalid prefix in selected component "T"
> --  test.adb:20:14: invalid prefix in selected component "T"
> --  test.adb:21:14: invalid prefix in selected component "T"
> --  gnatmake: "test.adb" compilation error
> ----- end of example --------------------------------------------------