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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Subverting 'Access for Sub-programs
Date: 1999/08/10
Date: 1999-08-10T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908102006320.1888-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcc7ln56pzx.fsf@world.std.com

On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Robert A Duff wrote:

> Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> writes:
> 
> > So, only allow this for descendants of (possibly limited) Controlled
> > types, or some similar special type?
> 
> I don't see how that helps.  If you have a global "type Ptr is access
> all Something'Class", and you have a (illegal in Ada) type extension
> local to some procedure, then you could end up with a global pointer
> referencing an object of the local type (ie with the local 'Tag).
> Finalizing it doesn't make any difference -- you still have a pointer to
> a thing that contains dangling pointers (to the primitive ops).

Yup, I know you can't use finalization to get this; I thought you were 
proposing a similar "distinguished tagged type" mechanism analogous to 
controlled types for nested extensions, but on rereading what you wrote 
I think that I must have hallucinated it :-).

In any case, I still think nested type extensions are a lot less useful
than a direct downward funarg capability.

-- Brian






  reply	other threads:[~1999-08-10  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-08-03  0:00 Subverting 'Access for Sub-programs Anton Gibbs
1999-08-03  0:00 ` tmoran
1999-08-03  0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-08-03  0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-03  0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-08-05  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-03  0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-08-03  0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-04  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-04  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-04  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-04  0:00 ` Anton Gibbs
1999-08-04  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-04  0:00     ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-05  0:00       ` tmoran
1999-08-05  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-05  0:00           ` Ray Blaak
1999-08-06  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-06  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-08  0:00                 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-09  0:00                   ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-10  0:00                     ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1999-08-09  0:00                 ` Tucker Taft
1999-08-06  0:00             ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-08-06  0:00               ` Hyman Rosen
1999-08-07  0:00                 ` Florian Weimer
1999-08-05  0:00         ` Aidan Skinner
1999-08-05  0:00     ` Anton Gibbs
1999-08-04  0:00   ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-08-04  0:00     ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-05  0:00       ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-08-05  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-05  0:00           ` tmoran
1999-08-06  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-05  0:00           ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-06  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-09  0:00               ` Tucker Taft
1999-08-10  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-11  0:00                   ` Tucker Taft
1999-08-13  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-13  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-13  0:00                       ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-11  0:00                   ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-11  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-11  0:00                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
1999-08-11  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-12  0:00                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
1999-08-14  0:00                         ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-16  0:00                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
1999-08-11  0:00                     ` Richard D Riehle
1999-08-05  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-05  0:00         ` adam
1999-08-05  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-05  0:00             ` What is a Display ? (was: Subverting 'Access for Sub-programs) Larry Kilgallen
1999-08-05  0:00               ` Hyman Rosen
1999-08-06  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-06  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-05  0:00           ` Subverting 'Access for Sub-programs adam
1999-08-06  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-06  0:00               ` adam
1999-08-09  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-09  0:00                 ` Mark Biggar
1999-08-06  0:00         ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-07  0:00           ` Gautier
1999-08-05  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-05  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-05  0:00         ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-05  0:00   ` Steve Quinlan
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