Re: GNAT GPL 2007 Problems with generics

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Tue, 15 May 2007 16:14:37 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> Does anybody know anything about the following problem. When a generic
> package A instantiates another generic package B and refers to a subprogram
> C from its body, then under certain circumstances (I cannot figure out
> when), everything compiles, but then fails in gnatlink on "undefined
> reference to xxxx" From the cryptic name xxxx, it seems that the module it
> fails to find is the subprogram B.C (an instance in the instance of A)
> 
> The name xxxx has the pattern:
> 
> <name_of_instance_of_A>__<name_of_instance_of_B>__<name of C>__2X

OK, I have figured out the problem. The bug is related to the visibility
rules. It appears when C refers to a parameter of the type T declared in
some fourth package D. In the specification of B it does this as C (...; X
: T;...). In the body it does it as C (...; X : D.T; ...).

The problem disappears when both become X : T. [ As far as I can remember,
they had to be different to work around another bug in some earlier version
of GNAT. ]
 
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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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