------- Additional Comments From chrisp_42 at bigpond dot com 2005-01-21 02:04 ------- (In reply to comment #1) > Hmm, is *- special operand in Ada or is this just a parse error in the front-end (I don't know Ada that at
You are actually fairly close. *- is not a special operator, but the multiply operator has a higher precedence than the unary minus. This causes the multiply to bind to the minus sign (not the result of the unary minus). The fix is the write the code as follows: B := B*(-B); This is actually fairly common in Ada. This TR is invalid because the test case is invalid Ada code. Whether or not the error message could be improved or not I dont know, but most Ada programmers would immediately know what is wrong with the code. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19539
