From: Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Porting from Modula-2 to Ada
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 18:56:37 GMT
Date: 2002-10-22T18:56:37+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DB59F92.1060600@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DB50455.E7964582@lml.ls.fi.upm.es
Manuel Collado wrote:
> Thanks to all who respond. After considering the suggestions, I think
> I'll keep the initial proposed scheme. It doesn't follow the Ada
> programming style, but is straightforward. And in some cases it can be
> reduced in fact to passing the address, because the size is already an
> explicit parameter in some procedures.
This is the way C does it. Decades of experience with C have shown that
this is the source of many subtle errors.
Enjoy your long nights with the debugger.
--
Jeff Carter
"This school was here before you came,
and it'll be here before you go."
Horse Feathers
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2002-10-18 8:24 Porting from Modula-2 to Ada Manuel Collado
2002-10-18 9:45 ` Bernd Specht
2002-10-18 10:33 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2002-10-18 10:55 ` Jeffrey Creem
2002-10-18 11:21 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2002-10-18 22:01 ` Jeffrey Creem
2002-10-18 21:29 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-18 21:39 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-18 11:20 ` Nicolas Cailín Paul Gloster
2002-10-18 15:14 ` Pat Rogers
2002-10-24 14:51 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2002-10-25 3:43 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2003-02-04 14:12 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2003-02-09 6:07 ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-10-19 13:30 ` SteveD
2002-10-22 7:48 ` Manuel Collado
2002-10-22 7:55 ` Manuel Collado
2002-10-22 18:56 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2002-10-23 9:08 ` Manuel Collado
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