From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Subtypes do not Statically Match
Date: 1999/07/01
Date: 1999-07-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7lfvnr$fmj$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 377A8C1A.6EFE0FF7@boeing.com
In article <377A8C1A.6EFE0FF7@boeing.com>,
John Harbaugh <john.s.harbaugh2@boeing.com> wrote:
> type Object(Max : Positive) is tagged record
> Component : aliased String(1..Max);
> end record;
>
> type String_Ref is access all String;
...
> function The_Handle(Obj : access Object) return String_Ref is
> begin
> return Obj.Component'access;
> --Error: object subtype must statically match designated subtype
> end;
Why don't you just use the routines in Ada.Strings to perform this
function? I don't see anything you are doing that couldn't be done that
way, and you wouldn't have to debug the translation routines.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-06-30 0:00 Subtypes do not Statically Match John Harbaugh
1999-06-30 0:00 ` James S. Rogers
1999-07-01 0:00 ` John Harbaugh
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-07-01 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1999-07-01 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-07-01 0:00 ` John Harbaugh
1999-07-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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