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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Ada Core Technologies announces GNATCOM
Date: 2000/04/13
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In article <xi4J4.2$eF.226@news-east.usenetserver.com>,
  "David Botton" <David@Botton.com> wrote:

> In the Turbo C version I used (some many years ago) if struct
> q was large enough doing

> m.a++ in the function as you do below would in fact change the
> m passed in, ie. a pass by reference.

That's a serious bug! In C, parameters are never EVER passed
by reference.

Certainly Ada does not have to be worried about interfacing
consistently to C compilers with serious bugs in them that
affect the interfacing :-)


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