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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Ada Core Technologies announces GNATCOM
Date: 2000/04/12
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In article <fg6I4.4981$Qy3.385311@news.pacbell.net>,
  tmoran@bix.com wrote:
> > ... in fact we copied the definition
> > of C_Pass_By_Copy from the Intermetrics compiler (even
though
> > we really dislike the design, especially since it is fixing
> > a clear error in the RM in a kludgy way :-)
>   It does seem strange to designate a *type* as C_Pass_By_Copy
> when of course it's a particular parameter to a particular
> function that needs to be passed by value.  Is that your
> complaint, or a different one.   What would be your
> preferred solution?


Fix the RM! The RM is plain wrong, just due to misunderstanding
of C. It is obvious that a record passed as an IN parameter
should map to a C struct passed as a value parameter.

But it's too late now for that (that was our initial solution
in GNAT, and perhaps we should have stuck with it).

The worst feature of C_Pass_By_Copy is the form with a byte
count giving the cutoff.

A bit of a mess here ...


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