From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Ada 83 Pointers question
Date: 1999/01/21
Date: 1999-01-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <787fcm$k03$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36A658CA.97438B6@cacd.rockwell.com
In article <36A658CA.97438B6@cacd.rockwell.com>,
aalowe@cacd.rockwell.com wrote:
> Now since we are safety critical, we have been forbidden
> from using a new clause and since the 'Access does not
> exist yet, the engineer created a unchecked conversion to
> go between a System.Address and a boolean pointer. Thus
> when the 'snapshot' is created, it then references the
> boolean pointer element to the array of the record to the
> 'Address of the boolean component. Whew!
I am having trouble understanding the above paragraph. As
best I understand it, it says
"Since we are safety critical, we have been forbidden from
doing this in the safe and reliable way, and have instead
rigged up a highly non-portable unsafe way of doing things
that may or may not work, but it seems to work OK, so we
guess it's OK, though it leaves us feeling uncomfortable".
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1999-01-20 0:00 Ada 83 Pointers question Lowe Anthony A
1999-01-21 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-01-21 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-21 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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