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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
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Subject: Re: Designated type of actual does not match that of formal 
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In article <gvlx7.5777$i14.731944@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>, chris.danx
says...
>type xxx is new abc with private; -- where abc is abstract & limited;
>type xxx_access is access all xxx'class;
>
>I tried
>
>procedure free is new ada.unchecked_deallocation (xxx, xxx_access);
>
>but it doesn't work.  I get the error 'Designated type of actual does not
>match that of formal "name"?'.  What am I missing?

That's because it doesn't. xxx_access points to objects of type "xxx'class", not
xxx. Change one or the other to match, and it ought to work.

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