From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)
Subject: Re: limited/non-limited in Ada95
Date: 1997/10/21
Date: 1997-10-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <344ccece.1720086@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mheaney-ya023680001910971304190001@news.ni.net
>>Another problem is that once a tagged type is non-limited, no
>>extension can be, or have components that are,llimited.
>Yes, that's true. But you could always add a discriminant of a named
>access type to the derived type, to point to objects that are limited.
Using a (named)access type instead of the limited object directly is
ugly, increases code size and complexity, is error prone, and
expensive (eg on Windows CE where they tell you to avoid memory
allocation/deallocation as much as possible) . Other than that, it's
just fine. :(
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-21 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-13 0:00 limited/non-limited in Ada95 Tom Moran
1997-10-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-17 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-23 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-10-23 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-24 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-10-23 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-18 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-10-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-19 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-10-19 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran [this message]
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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