Re: GNAT Error?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

I don't see anything wrong with that off-hand. It's probably a compiler bug 
of some sort. - Randy.


"Jeffrey R.Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org.not> wrote in message 
news:uqos24$3rue0$2@dont-email.me...
> On 2024-02-17 00:26, Niklas Holsti wrote:
>>
>> You showed two copies of the declaration (spec) of package Alloc_Err, but 
>> you did not show the body of the package. Based on the error message 
>> pointing to alloc_err.adb (and not .ads), GNAT thinks the error is in the 
>> body. Please show the body of the package.
>>
>
> Oops. Well, I've managed to simplify the reproducer to
>
> procedure Alloc2 is
>    type Grid is array (Positive range <>, Positive range <>) of Integer 
> with
>       Dynamic_Predicate => Grid'First (1) = 1 and Grid'First (2) = 1;
>
>    type Grid_Ptr is access Grid;
>
>    Data : Grid_Ptr := new Grid (1 .. 10, 1 .. 20);
> begin -- Alloc2
>    null;
> end Alloc2;
>
> which results in
>
> alloc2.adb:7:23: error: invalid use of subtype mark in expression or call
>
> Line 7 is the declaration of Data.
>
> -- 
> Jeff Carter
> "I like it when the support group complains that they have
> insufficient data on mean time to repair bugs in Ada software."
> Robert I. Eachus
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