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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




  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-22 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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