/* If we have a constant that we are not defining, get the expression it
was defined to represent. This is necessary to avoid generating dumb
- elaboration code in simple cases, but we may throw it away later if it
+ elaboration code in simple cases, and we may throw it away later if it
is not a constant. But do not do it for dispatch tables because they
are only referenced indirectly and we need to have a consistent view
of the exported and of the imported declarations of the tables from
external units for them to be properly merged in LTO mode. Moreover
- simply do not retrieve the expression it if it is an allocator since
+ simply do not retrieve the expression if it is an allocator because
the designated type might still be dummy at this point. Note that we
invoke gnat_to_gnu_external and not gnat_to_gnu because the expression
may contain N_Expression_With_Actions nodes and thus declarations of
- objects from other units that we need to discard. */
+ objects from other units that we need to discard. Note also that we
+ need to do it even if we are only annotating types, so as to be able
+ to validate representation clauses using constants. */
if (!definition
&& !No_Initialization (gnat_decl)
&& !Is_Dispatch_Table_Entity (gnat_entity)
&& Present (gnat_temp = Expression (gnat_decl))
- && Nkind (gnat_temp) != N_Allocator)
+ && Nkind (gnat_temp) != N_Allocator
+ && (Is_Elementary_Type (Etype (gnat_entity)) || !type_annotate_only))
gnu_expr = gnat_to_gnu_external (gnat_temp);
/* ... fall through ... */