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From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Access to primitive operations of tagged types
Date: 1997/03/18
Date: 1997-03-18T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.97Mar18183425@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: hkbmg5.2h2.ln@localhost


In article <hkbmg5.2h2.ln@localhost> njt@sv1pc161.cs.york.ac.uk (Nigel J. Tracey) writes:

> My problem is however that I cannot pass an access to the callback
> functions when installing the callback routine in X.  The Ada RM
> states that a dereference of an access-to-subprogram value is never
> a dispatching call.

Make the "access" registered functions non dispatching, make them
private (or better yet in a body), and have them _call_ their
appropriate dispatchable operation.

/Jon
-- 
Jon Anthony
Organon Motives, Inc.
Belmont, MA 02178
617.484.3383
jsa@organon.com





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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-03-18  0:00 Access to primitive operations of tagged types Nigel J. Tracey
1997-03-18  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1997-03-31  0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
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