From: dale <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Ada Core Technologies announces GNATCOM
Date: 2000/04/14
Date: 2000-04-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dale-406E87.12160514042000@news.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38F674E2.47DF35FC@research.canon.com.au
Geoff Bull wrote:
>
> The case where pass by reference or value depended on the
> size would be fun. Add a component to a struct and the whole
> behaviour of the program changes. ouch!
... programs that rely on the semantics of the parameter passing
were deemed to be erroneous in Ada83.
Not sure if that still holds in Ada (95), or whether it is a
bounded error.
Still, this doesn't help much if your program -does- depend on it.
Dale
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-07 0:00 Ada Core Technologies announces GNATCOM Robert Dewar
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Tom Hargraves
2000-04-08 0:00 ` David
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-08 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-04-08 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-08 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-09 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-12 0:00 ` C_Pass_By_Value, was " tmoran
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-12 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-12 0:00 ` DuckE
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-12 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-04-12 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-14 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-14 0:00 ` dale [this message]
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-09 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-09 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-09 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-04-10 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
2000-04-10 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-04-11 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
2000-04-11 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-04-10 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-11 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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