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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
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In article <u3d1i3yns.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>, Stephen Leake says...
>I found chasing thru the various layers of Initialize, Adjust, and
>Finalize very confusing, espically for functions like "&" that must
>allocate a temporary object to return. I have not done a lot of work
>with Controlled types, and now I remember one reason why!

Same here (although being restricted to the library level was another reason).

I had an early version that tried to initailize a temporary object of that same
type within Adjust. That of course causes Adjust to be called within Adjust,
with no way out of the implicit recursion. I started to get a clue when the
program ran for several minutes, with the disk going like mad, ending in a
virtual memory exhaustion warning. :-(

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