Re: Self pointer in limited record

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

Maciej Sobczak a �crit :

> You mean - the access type is defined in the same scope as the record
> and there is a potential danger that the access component in the
> record can point to some other record that may disappear leading to
> dangling pointer?

I have not tested but I would expect Ada 2005 anonymous access type to
work nicely here (removing the need for Unchecked_Access):

    type T is new Ada.Finalization.Limited_Controlled with record
        Self : access T := T'Access;

Pascal.

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