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!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40FEE5FB.5060709@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 21:54:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.24.233 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1090446846 209.165.24.233 (Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:54:06 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:54:06 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2334 Date: 2004-07-21T21:54:06+00:00 List-Id: I think I meant more "contextually"... There is some prescident for stipulating you want things initialized a certain way to guarantee conditions for safety and predictability. Would this be the appropriate area of the ARM on which to focus if someone wants a pragma to initialize unused bits? Would a proposal presumably want to do things in a similar way to what already exists? I'm not convinced yet of the utility of it, but if someone is making a proposed language extension, its nice to be sure its at least focused in the right area of the ARM... MDC Lionel.DRAGHI@fr.thalesgroup.com wrote: > > | -----Message d'origine----- > | De: Marin David Condic [mailto:nobody@noplace.com] > ... > | 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? > > Not really : what would be useful here is initialization *between* scalars > ;-) > -- ====================================================================== 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 ======================================================================