Re: Allocators for anonymous access return types

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

* J-P. Rosen:

>>    type Variadic is tagged limited private;
> My first reaction would be to define here:
>      type Variadic access is access Variadic;

"type Variadic_Access is access Variadic;"?

It's difficult to get exception-safe code that way.  Deallocating the
parameters in Print is not sufficient because you leak memory when
constructing one of the arguments raises an exception.

> But you mention:
>> (My other example avoids copying, and seems to be safe according to
>> the ARM rules, as long as you don't declare something involving the
>> Unchecked_* types.  A solution based on anonymous access types might
>> make this violation impossible, hence my interest in them.)

> I don't know what you mean by Unchecked_* types. I guess you mean no use
> of Unchecked_Conversion? Better use a restriction then.

Oops, I was referring to the Ref type in
<87fwvn51mz.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (it's called
Unchecked_Parameter_Reference in the actual code, and for good
reason).