From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: ObjectAda vs Gnat -- bugs
Date: 1997/05/16
Date: 1997-05-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.97May16150307@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EAA25I.9nn.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com
In article <EAA25I.9nn.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com> stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) writes:
> : > Which of the compilers is correct ?
>
> : gnat; see below
>
> Actually, Gnat is wrong and Object Ada is correct ;-). In Ada 95,
> the result of calling a function is a constant object (per RM95 3.3(10,21)),
> and it may be renamed (8.5.1(4)). This fact is mentioned in AARM 3.3(26.b).
And, what is more, this is a _very_ useful thing. Several nice
examples are in the Rationale!
/Jon
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1997-05-15 0:00 ObjectAda vs Gnat -- bugs granger
1997-05-15 0:00 ` Samuel A. Mize
1997-05-15 0:00 ` Samuel A. Mize
1997-05-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-16 0:00 ` David L Brown
1997-05-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-17 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-05-18 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-19 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-05-19 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-05-15 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-05-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-16 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-05-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1997-05-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-17 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-16 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-05-16 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1997-05-16 0:00 Keith Thompson
1997-05-16 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-18 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-05-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-20 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-05-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-23 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-05-24 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-28 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-05-31 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-19 0:00 tmoran
1997-05-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-20 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-05-25 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-05-20 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1997-05-30 0:00 John Walker
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