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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Are unconstrained arrays passed by references?
Date: 1999/08/10
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In article <7opbch$bca$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  bourguet@my-deja.com wrote:
> Is there a way to guarantee a pass by reference for a given type?
> (I seem to recall that in the spitbol package ACT use pragma
> volatile to this effect) And for a subtype? (So one can use this
> way to create a subtype of string, making this function savier)

Well, you could pass a pointer to the object.

In Ada83 that was the only portable way. In Ada(95) there is now the
"access" parameter mode. Also, the LRM now defines several situations in
which a specific mechanism *must* be used, depending on the type of the
object being passed.

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