From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Why parameter passing by copy?
Date: 2000/05/27
Date: 2000-05-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dale-277623.23001027052000@news.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
Ada requires that scalars be passed by copy. I was under the impression
that this was chosen because it was faster, but i've never seen a
rational argument for this from the Ada83 perspective of computer
hardware, nor whether such arguments still hold true for modern
processors.
Can anyone shed any light on this?
Dale
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2000-05-27 0:00 Dale Stanbrough [this message]
2000-05-27 0:00 ` Why parameter passing by copy? Robert Dewar
2000-05-27 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-05-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-27 0:00 ` Thierry Lelegard
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