From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-15 06:43:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3BC30674.BA88AAB6@brighton.ac.uk> <9pvv3t$ves$1@news.huji.ac.il> <7tCx7.26026$ev2.34604@www.newsranger.com> Subject: Re: why not Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 09:43:05 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:43:05 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14528 Date: 2001-10-15T13:43:05+00:00 List-Id: In article , Simon Wright says... > >This did involve a rather repellent conversion to allow a function to >convert the address of a (tagged) container parameter to a >pointer-to-writable-container. Down and dirty in the private >part. And, if I remember right, one of the problems that stopped the >BCs compiling with JGNAT .. Well, that's probably understandable since in Java practicly everything (or nothing, depending on how you look at it) is a pointer. Trying to avoid heap allocations in that environment is almost missing the point. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.