Re: Semantics of Inline vs non-Inline

[aschwarz@acm.org (skidmarks)]

Well, thanks. The results of your efforts are that I am successful.
Here is the update.

1. Unchecked_Conversion was tried and worked. funct( a: access type)
was briefly tried but in this case I think that Unchecked_Conversion
is the better choice.

2. I mispoke about not receiving an appropriate error message from the
compiler. The compiler did indeed say that it couldn't find a valid
address, that 'null' was to be substituted, and that there would be a
run-time constraint error. However, at run-time Windows captured and
reported the error, not the Ada run-time system.

At the end, there is success in effort and a (vast) improvement in
understanding. Thank you all again.

art

(And the vendor does still insist that their compiler is operating
correctly. The vendor's representative did point out that there was
indeed an appropriate diagnostic message, and on his behalf I am sorry
that I was inaccurate.)