From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: Modes (was unbounded_string)
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:21:17 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2003-10-10T16:21:17+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bm6m9t$bjk$1@sparta.btinternet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uzng9f7ej.fsf@nasa.gov
"Stephen Leake" <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote in message
news:uzng9f7ej.fsf@nasa.gov...
> Tagged types and full limited types are always passed by reference,
> because it almost always matters for them.
Also, tagged types are almost certainly 2 words+ in size (word <=> 32-bits).
Even
in Ada83 (at least in any implementation I saw) types of this size (or
greater) were
always passed by reference, for efficiency, though the standard didn't
mandate it.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20031010074015.761204C40C1@lovelace.ada-france.org>
2003-10-10 8:27 ` Modes (was unbounded_string) Andrew Carroll
2003-10-10 9:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-10-11 7:16 ` Simon Wright
2003-10-13 9:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-10-10 15:18 ` Stephen Leake
2003-10-10 16:21 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2003-10-14 18:47 ` Craig Carey
2003-10-10 19:06 ` Jeffrey Carter
2003-10-13 9:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-10-13 9:40 ` Stephane Richard
2003-10-13 10:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-10-15 2:16 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-10-15 3:36 ` Jeff C,
2003-10-16 16:45 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
[not found] <20031010094017.680474C40C1@lovelace.ada-france.org>
2003-10-10 10:58 ` Andrew Carroll
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