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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Dynamic allocation of unconstrained types
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:15:22 -0700 (PDT)
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On Sep 30, 11:30=A0am, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
<spam.jrcarter....@spam.acm.org> wrote:
> Adam Beneschan wrote:
>
> > (functions returning limited types weren't allowed in Ada 95)
>
> Yes, they were.

Oh, yeah, that's right---the return-by-reference thing.  I forgot
about that because they were really more like functions that return an
access to some existing object, rather than functions returning an
object.  You couldn't create a new limited object and return it.
Anyway, that doesn't really affect my point: the compiler's
implementation of functions returning limited types is pretty much all
new for Ada 2005, and this appears to be a case that slipped through
the cracks in GNAT.

                                   -- Adam