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Re: RE : [Ada]: failure to build on Mandrake 8.1 / x86


dewar@gnat.com writes:

> I am coming into this thread in the middle (I am on a very slow line with
> over a thousand unread messages), so if this is a confusing answer, sorry.
> 
> This message is expected, the Ada standard does not allow units like
> Ada to be recompiled by a user. To implement this requirement of the
> standard, we require a special "implementor" switch -gnatg for such
> recompilations.

And if the "-gnatg" option is not specified, the compiler detects this
error and stops *before* code generation.  That's why the bug is not
triggered if the option is omitted.


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