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From: dale <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Ada Core Technologies announces GNATCOM
Date: 2000/04/14
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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