* [Ada] Restore hiding of predefined "=" operator through class-wide type
@ 2022-05-30 8:32 Pierre-Marie de Rodat
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From: Pierre-Marie de Rodat @ 2022-05-30 8:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc-patches; +Cc: Eric Botcazou
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The previous change introduced a backward incompatibility in the handling
of a user-defined "=" operator for a class-wide type of a tagged type: it
would previously hide the predefined "=" operator of the tagged type in
the private case, but it no longer does in this case, while it still does
in the nonprivate case.
This hiding is a non-portability, but is fundamentally what the compiler
implements, instead of the RM rule which requires homographs. The reason
lies in the implementation of the "=" operator in GNAT: internally, there
is not a "=" predefined operator for every nonlimited type, but instead
there is a single, universal "=" predefined operator for all the nonlimited
types. The consequence is that the hiding rule implemented in GNAT for "="
is effectively that a user-declared symmetrical "=" operator returning
boolean hides the predefined "=" operator of any type that is covered by
the user-declared operator.
Whether it is desirable to implement the exact RM rule in GNAT is to be
discussed, but existing code relies on the non-portability and would thus
need to be changed.
Tested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, committed on trunk
gcc/ada/
* sem_ch6.adb (New_Overloaded_Entity): Deal specifically with the
overriding of the "=" operator for tagged types.
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diff --git a/gcc/ada/sem_ch6.adb b/gcc/ada/sem_ch6.adb
--- a/gcc/ada/sem_ch6.adb
+++ b/gcc/ada/sem_ch6.adb
@@ -12303,7 +12303,34 @@ package body Sem_Ch6 is
-- Work done in Override_Dispatching_Operation, so
-- nothing else needs to be done here.
- null;
+ -- ??? Special case to keep supporting the hiding
+ -- of the predefined "=" operator for a nonlimited
+ -- tagged type by a user-defined "=" operator for
+ -- its class-wide type when the type is private.
+
+ if Chars (E) = Name_Op_Eq then
+ declare
+ Typ : constant Entity_Id
+ := Etype (First_Entity (E));
+ H : Entity_Id := Homonym (E);
+
+ begin
+ while Present (H)
+ and then Scope (H) = Scope (E)
+ loop
+ if Is_User_Defined_Equality (H)
+ and then Is_Immediately_Visible (H)
+ and then Etype (First_Entity (H))
+ = Class_Wide_Type (Typ)
+ then
+ Remove_Entity_And_Homonym (E);
+ exit;
+ end if;
+
+ H := Homonym (H);
+ end loop;
+ end;
+ end if;
end if;
else
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