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Subject: Re: Return_By_Reference or Return_By_Copy (GNAT bug?)
Date: 3 Jan 2005 22:20:33 -0600
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In article <H4ydndUFyuAmTUTcRVn-3A@megapath.net>, "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
> "Duncan Sands" <baldrick@free.fr> wrote in message
> news:mailman.21.1104616882.527.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org...
>> I was playing around with return by reference to see if it is possible to
>> get unserialized access to a protected variable using the Rosen trick (it
> is,
>> see example below, especially the protected object P in package C).  Will
> this
>> be illegal in Ada 2005?
> 
> Yes, it will.
> 
> ...
> ...
>> package body B is
>>
>>    The_A : A_Type;
>>
>>    function Get_The_A return A_Type is
>>    begin
>>       return The_A;
> 
> -- This return will be illegal in Ada 2005 (the return expression is not an
> aggregate or function call).

Even though nothing in that sample says protected ?