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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: parameter modes
Date: 25 Dec 2002 18:09:40 -0600
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In article <wHrO9.459852$P31.154990@rwcrnsc53>, Stapler <spam.magnet@yahoo.com> writes:

> 
> Do you know if it's possible within the Ada language to define an optional
> compiler instruction or pragma that says something like this ...
> 
> 	if memory_region < X_number_of_bytes then
> 
> 		Pass_by_copy(memory_region, Destination);
> 
> 	else
> 
> 		Pass_by_access_type(memory_region);
> 
> 	end if;

You should count on your compiler to do something like that in places
where it is legal and appropriate.  If your compiler does not, perhaps
a compiler you buy in the future will do so.  Trying to work around
the decisions a compiler makes can be painful for you in the future.