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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fa2221f5dd5f5100 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-23 22:40:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: vashwath@rediffmail.com (prashna) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Newbie question about pointers in GNAT 3.15p on Windows 2000 : to Steve Date: 23 Feb 2003 22:40:31 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <816517EFDE1ABFFF.672EFD9C99861B55.1999743ACE4BA64B@lp.airnews.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.90.112.53 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1046068831 26265 127.0.0.1 (24 Feb 2003 06:40:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Feb 2003 06:40:31 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34499 Date: 2003-02-24T06:40:31+00:00 List-Id: > If you are absolutely certain the variable will not be referenced after the ^^^^^ > lifetime of the procedure or function in which it is declared> Hi Steve, This sentence is bit confisung for me.I am not sure you are talking about which variable. Are talking about BUFSIZE (or P_SIZE). Both these variables are local to function X and it is absolutely impossible to refer these variables outside X.Please clarify this. And also please let me know how it is risky if I use 'Unchecked_Access. Thanks in Advance Ashwath