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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Ada 2012 : aliased parameters ?
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:04:53 -0500
Date: 2011-03-28T22:04:53-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <imri8p$3db$1@munin.nbi.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: fkeyxg5zhwig.1hrc0cluxh1r2$.dlg@40tude.net

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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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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?

The thing passed has to be aliased or tagged (of course), so the compiler 
just has to avoid allocating them in a register. Standard stuff.

> 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."

Neither do we.

                        Randy.





  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-29  3:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-28 11:47 Ada 2012 : aliased parameters ? Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-28 11:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-29  3:04   ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2011-03-28 11:56 ` AdaMagica
2011-03-29 18:22   ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-29 18:34     ` Shark8
2011-03-29 19:35       ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-30  0:12     ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-29  3:16 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-29  7:34   ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-03-30  0:09     ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-30 19:44       ` Randy Brukardt
2011-04-23 18:47   ` Florian Weimer
2011-04-25  7:19     ` Randy Brukardt
2011-04-28 19:47       ` Florian Weimer
2011-04-28 23:54         ` Randy Brukardt
2011-04-30 18:32           ` Florian Weimer
2011-04-30 23:46             ` Randy Brukardt
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