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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
Date: 02 Sep 2004 20:10:35 +0100
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kevin.cline@gmail.com (Kevin Cline) writes:

> For example, I found this at http://www.gidenstam.org/Ada/:

> This library, the Add Finalization Anywhere Library, provides a
> nice(?) way to add finalization to any (limited) tagged type at any
> level. The structure of the library is inspired by Christoph Karl
> Walter Grein's library for adding finalization to library level
> tagged types and my library is designed to integrate well with his.
> 
> However, since declaring controlled types elsewhere than at the
> library level isn't supported by Ada there is a lot of hackish
> things going on inside the library. Currently, I don't know whether
> the these things work on any other compiler than GNAT 3.13p and
> whether they are at all sane."

I'm pretty sure that Christophe's library only worked because of bugs
in GNAT 3.13p.

The reference (after a _very_ strange compilation problem) loops with
3.16a1; with 5.02a1 it does something which looks not unreasonable...

-- 
Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.