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From: ahlan@marriott.org
Subject: Re: Uninitialized out parameters.
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 01:19:21 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2016-04-06T01:19:21-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <70a76f87-51a9-4e77-9fa0-79714f9c0ba7@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ne0oct$b80$1@dont-email.me>

On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 6:19:47 PM UTC+2, G.B. wrote:
> On 05.04.16 14:02, ahlan@marriott.org wrote:
> >    Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("V:" & V'img);
> >
> > The value zero is output, which because V is positive should be impossible.
> 
> Addressing just this issue: the line is calling
> implementation defined attribute 'IMG, which can
> do as it pleases. The Ada type attribute 'Image
> takes a value of type Positive'Base, which includes 0,
> which is why outputting 0 is perfectly fine.
> 
> (It's not a subtype attribute, but a type attribute,
> if this makes sense.)

The issue here is not whether or not 'img fails but the fact that V is returned with a value out of range.
But even that is not the point I'm trying to make.
I am suggesting that it ought not to be possible to define a null procedure that has out parameters without some form of warning being issued.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-06  8:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-05 12:02 Uninitialized out parameters ahlan
2016-04-05 13:17 ` rieachus
2016-04-05 14:07   ` ahlan
2016-04-06  9:45     ` Mark Lorenzen
2016-04-06 21:01       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-04-07  7:10       ` ahlan
2016-04-05 16:19 ` G.B.
2016-04-06  8:19   ` ahlan [this message]
2016-04-06 10:17     ` G.B.
2016-04-06 11:44       ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-04-06 20:41         ` Niklas Holsti
2016-04-06 20:54         ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-06 20:47       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-06 21:01         ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-06 21:22           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-07  7:27             ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-06 11:37 ` AdaMagica
2016-04-06 13:44   ` ahlan
2016-04-06 14:09     ` Mark Lorenzen
2016-04-06 14:10     ` G.B.
2016-04-06 20:53     ` Stefan.Lucks
2016-04-06 21:03       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-06 21:12       ` Niklas Holsti
2016-04-06 21:30       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-07  9:56         ` Stefan.Lucks
2016-04-07 16:08           ` AdaMagica
2016-04-07 23:02             ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-08  7:32               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-07  7:52       ` Georg Bauhaus
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-07-29  0:00 W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-07-18  0:00 Uninitialized "out" parameters Paul Whittington
1996-07-18  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-19  0:00   ` Peter Amey
1996-07-20  0:00   ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-20  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-21  0:00       ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-21  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-23  0:00           ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-23  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-24  0:00               ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-24  0:00                 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-07-24  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-25  0:00                   ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-25  0:00                     ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-25  0:00                 ` Frank Manning
1996-07-25  0:00                   ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-26  0:00                     ` Frank Manning
1996-07-23  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-24  0:00               ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-24  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-24  0:00               ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-25  0:00               ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-25  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-23  0:00           ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-23  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-24  0:00               ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-24  0:00               ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-18  0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-07-18  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-19  0:00   ` Pascal Obry
1996-07-19  0:00     ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-19  0:00   ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-07-19  0:00     ` John Herro
1996-07-19  0:00       ` Tucker Taft
1996-07-23  0:00         ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-23  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-19  0:00   ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-07-19  0:00     ` Adam Beneschan
1996-07-19  0:00     ` James A. Squire
1996-07-19  0:00       ` Adam Beneschan
1996-07-20  0:00       ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-21  0:00         ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-21  0:00           ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-21  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-22  0:00             ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-23  0:00               ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-23  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-25  0:00                   ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-24  0:00                 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-24  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-25  0:00                   ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-19  0:00 ` Michel Gauthier
1996-07-21  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-19  0:00 ` Peter Amey
1996-07-21  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-23  0:00 ` John Herro
1996-07-23  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-23  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-24  0:00     ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-26  0:00   ` Stephen J Bevan
1996-07-26  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
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