[Info-vax] Ada array initialisation, was: Re: OT: lightweight 90s viewer for Level 2 Postscript. Plus compiler-related obscureness.

[John Wallace]

On Aug 25, 11:30 pm, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-
Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2012-08-25, John Wallace <johnwalla... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > [probably my last contribution on this particular subtopic]
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> > Same thought occured at work, which means either it's another good
> > idea, or we're both equally daft. You pick.
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> > A quick test was added to attempt to check the general theory of
> > whether elaboration had run or not by the time the relevant bit of
> > test program got to run. The extra code indicated that elaboration had
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> > A last ditch attempt to confirm this was to change the makefile to
> > leave all the .s files around. There was no evidence of the required
> > initialisations in the .s file, leading to the conclusion that
> > somewhere earlier in the compiler was for some invisible reason
> > discarding the required initialisations.
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> Then I revert to my first opinion: the compiler's broken. :-)
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> Thanks for having reported back on your testing; I was curious
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> > As a functional workaround has been identified, the subject is closed
> > (at least for now); there are plenty more pressing things to do.
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> Understood.
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> Simon.
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> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
> Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world

Ah, sod it.

The following link may be of interest to folk whose interest is DEC,
as well as folk whose interest is compilers.

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2012?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=cake1.jpg

Folk can work out where to go for the rest of the background for the
picture, right?