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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Getting GNAT to issue ARM error messages
Date: 1999/02/19
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dewar@gnat.com writes:

>      3.    m : aliased string (1 .. 3) := "CAT";
>            |
>         >>> warning: aliased object has explicit bounds
>         >>> warning: declare with explicit initialization
>         >>> warning: for use with unconstrained access
> 
> Now things are much clearer, and the compiler tells you
> how to fix things. Since we put these warnings in, we have
> not had one person ask us about this message.

It still takes me more than a few looks at this to determine that you
want me to write

  m : aliased string := "CAT";

because the original has what looks very like explicit initialization!
(or is 'explicit' a technical term here?)