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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada to C++ translator
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* Martin Dowie:

>> Implicit instantiation of templates, for example.  Low-overhead
>> destructors, parameterized exceptions and multiple inheritance come to
>> my mind, too.  And there is wild pointer arithmetic, of course.
>
> What's "high-overhead" about Ada finalization?

It's an abort-deferred operation (like assignment, which I should have
mentioned as well).