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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,efe381d5ed2da234 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Pointer Problem References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 00:47:42 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.105.1 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1096678062 63.184.105.1 (Fri, 01 Oct 2004 17:47:42 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 17:47:42 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4541 Date: 2004-10-02T00:47:42+00:00 List-Id: aschwarz1309@att.net wrote: > However, if the object is declared in a scoped environment it would > seem that the only way that a pointer error could occur would be with > explicit exporting of a value. Wouldn't checking this be a more > reasonable approach than rejecting benign instances (for the next > iteration of Ada)? That would require that the compiler perform flow analysis, something the ARM is not likely to mandate. -- Jeff Carter "You cheesy lot of second-hand electric donkey-bottom biters." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 14