From: Alan Jump <alan.jump@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Accessibility checks
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:20:51 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2013-07-17T13:20:51-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <92e5cade-f0c6-49c8-ab48-e5e3463f0301@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mwplvthn.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Not all that complex, from where I sit. Here's a good, concise description:
http://www.adacore.com/adaanswers/gems/gem-33/
In short, enforcing accessibility eliminates dangling pointers and their associated...umm...issues.
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73 de N5ILN
Alan
On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 1:09:24 PM UTC-7, Florian Weimer wrote:
> One thing in Ada I could never quite grasp where the accessiblity
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> checks. I haven't seen much Ada code, and personally, I didn't have
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> much need for nested access types anyway. If I have used them, they
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> were still potentially unsafe due to aliasing or calls to
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> Unchecked_Deallocation in neighboring code.
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> So what's the point for this language feature? It seems to add quite
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> a bit of complexity to the language.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-17 20:09 Accessibility checks Florian Weimer
2013-07-17 20:20 ` Alan Jump [this message]
2013-07-17 21:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-17 23:44 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-18 0:39 ` Bill Findlay
2013-07-18 7:14 ` Simon Wright
2013-07-19 8:41 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-19 4:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-22 6:11 ` ake.ragnar.dahlgren
2013-07-22 9:03 ` Bill Findlay
2013-07-24 13:01 ` ake.ragnar.dahlgren
2013-07-24 13:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-29 6:18 ` ake.ragnar.dahlgren
2013-07-18 0:41 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-19 4:51 ` Randy Brukardt
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