From: Geoff Bull <geoff@research.canon.com.au>
Subject: Re: Ada Core Technologies announces GNATCOM
Date: 2000/04/14
Date: 2000-04-14T01:30:39+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38F674E2.47DF35FC@research.canon.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8d53tn$fb$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> In article <h%4J4.690$eF.25364@news-east.usenetserver.com>,
> "David Botton" <David@Botton.com> wrote:
>
> > I may be mistaken, but I believe many pre (and I mean pre)
> > ANSI C compilers did this.
>
> Absolutely not! This is really a very serious bug, and I
> have never worked with a C compiler that had this bug. It
> did not need the ANSI standard to know that C has ONLY
> call by value!
I am sure I remember a compiler, possibly an early version of MS C,
that passed structs by reference.
It was obviously a bug.
The case where pass by reference or value depended on the
size would be fun. Add a component to a struct and the whole
behaviour of the program changes. ouch!
Geoff
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-07 0:00 Ada Core Technologies announces GNATCOM Robert Dewar
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-08 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-09 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-12 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-12 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-04-12 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-14 0:00 ` Geoff Bull [this message]
2000-04-14 0:00 ` dale
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-12 0:00 ` DuckE
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-12 0:00 ` C_Pass_By_Value, was " tmoran
2000-04-09 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-09 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-04-10 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
2000-04-10 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-04-11 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
2000-04-11 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-04-10 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-09 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-11 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-04-08 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Tom Hargraves
2000-04-08 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-08 0:00 ` David
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