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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Function Calls by Address
Date: 1999/09/06
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In article <37D2E1A7.CAC3F923@magic.fr>,
  Francois Godme <fgodme@magic.fr> wrote:
> Yes, back in the Ada83 days, this was a good use (you were
almost
> forced) but now, you can do it in better ways. One way would
be to
> define an abstract tagged type that abstracts what you want to
do and to
> implement several concrete subclasses of this abstraction, one
for each
> target. Only the main subprogram will know on which target it
is running
> and will pass down to the application the appropriate instance
or the
> appropriate factory to build instances.


I am certain you did NOT follow the advice of the message to
which you are replying, and have a look at ??emstop.adb in
the GNAT sources. The above comments are really not relevant
to the use illustrated there.


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