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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada 2012 : aliased parameters ?
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:47:22 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:

>      Quote from Ada 2012:
> 
>      Parameters can now be explicitly aliased, allowing parts of
>      function results to designate parameters and forcing
>      by-reference parameter passing.

Interesting. How to force by-reference something allocated in a register?

Yes one could copy the actual value and then pass a reference to the copy,
but that is not what I would call "by-reference."

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