From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ab43ecf7e1a10743 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40FE611A.5000003@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Zero_Fill pragma References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:27:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.247.65.53 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1090412829 165.247.65.53 (Wed, 21 Jul 2004 05:27:09 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 05:27:09 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2315 Date: 2004-07-21T12:27:09+00:00 List-Id: Isn't there something in the "Safety" annex about initialization of scalars? Can't remember off the top of my head, but I think I bumpped into it at some point. Would that be useful in this context? MDC Lionel.DRAGHI@fr.thalesgroup.com wrote: > > | -----Message d'origine----- > | De: Nick Roberts [mailto:nick.roberts@acm.org] > ... > | Am I too late to make a proposal for a new pragma for > | the Ada 2005 Amendment? > | > | It would have the syntax: > | > | pragma Zero_Fill(simple_name); > ... > | It would have the effect of causing all the bits in the > | object which are unused to have a default initialisation > | of 0. > > I agree, this would be of immediate use here. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for." --Logan Pearsall Smith ======================================================================