Re: Problem with emacs ada-mode-7.1.4

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Paul Onions <ponions37@gmail.com> writes:

> Not sure if this is the right place to post this,

This is ok; the ada-mode mailing list at
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/ada-mode/ is better.

> but I have a problem compiling the Ada code after installing ada-mode
> 7.1.4 as a package in Gnu Emacs 27.2.
>
> Specifically, when I cd into ~/.emacs.d/elpa/ada-mode-7.1.4/ and issue
> the command ./build.sh I get the following:-

> sal-gen_unbounded_definite_vectors.adb:452:10: access discriminant in
> return object would be a dangling reference

This is due to a change in your version of GNAT vs the one I tested with
(better dangling reference detection); switch to Community 2020.

> I'm using GCC 11.1.0 from the download at
> https://github.com/simonjwright/building-gcc-macos-native, on macOS
> Big Sur.

Ok.

I have a fix for this in the development version of ada-mode. I didn't
realize this version of GNAT was in FSF gcc yet.

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-- Stephe