------- Comment #4 from mark_r_eggleston at yahoo dot co dot uk 2009-03-18 08:59 ------- Subject: Re: Can not resolve PUT between String and Character versions.
Sam, Thank you that make complete sense and explains why I could only reproduce this problem with integers ans its sub types as the parameter. I'd forgotten all about Ada array indexing and due to a limitation of the Ada syntax the difference between a function call and accessing an array element look identical which is why I suppose that there are named parameters available in subprogram calls. Had I been using Ada longer I would have recognised the ambiguity at thogh the time it did look to me to be an obvious bug. I apologise for wasting your time. --- On Tue, 17/3/09, sam at gcc dot gnu dot org <gcc-bugzi...@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > From: sam at gcc dot gnu dot org <gcc-bugzi...@gcc.gnu.org> > Subject: [Bug ada/39446] Can not resolve PUT between String and Character > versions. > To: mark_r_eggles...@yahoo.co.uk > Date: Tuesday, 17 March, 2009, 2:28 PM > > > ------- Comment #3 from sam at gcc dot gnu dot org > 2009-03-17 14:28 ------- > This is not a bug. The compiler really has no way to > distinguish between the > following two interpretations for "Put (Get_Name (7))": > > 1- Get_Name (7) is a call to Get_Name with argument > 7, which returns a String > 2- Get_Name (7) is a call to Get_Name without > argument, which returns a > String, and you attempt to take the 7th character of this > string, which is a > Character > > Hence the ambiguity. > > > -- > > sam at gcc dot gnu dot org changed: > > What > |Removed > |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > CC| > > |sam at gcc dot gnu dot org > > Status|UNCONFIRMED > |RESOLVED > Resolution| > > |INVALID > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39446 > > ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- > You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter. > -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39446
