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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,60dd4fe7723c0ef X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com Subject: Re: Ada Core Technologies announces GNATCOM Date: 2000/04/09 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 608837505 References: <8coc5e$do2$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: news.pacbell.net 955314315 206.170.24.5 (Sun, 09 Apr 2000 14:05:15 PDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 14:05:15 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > ... in fact we copied the definition > of C_Pass_By_Copy from the Intermetrics compiler (even though > we really dislike the design, especially since it is fixing > a clear error in the RM in a kludgy way :-) It does seem strange to designate a *type* as C_Pass_By_Copy when of course it's a particular parameter to a particular function that needs to be passed by value. Is that your complaint, or a different one. What would be your preferred solution?