From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Subject: Re: Why can't objects be static in Ada?
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 20:47:28 -0700
Date: 2019-04-13T20:47:28-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lnftql1c4v.fsf@kst-u.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b411a770-5e86-4d5e-9e43-e52843be724d@googlegroups.com
Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> writes:
> Someone sent in a pull request to my bindings and had to change a few
> constants to functions because objects can't be static. For an
> example:
>
> type Sizes is
> record
> Width : Dimension;
> Height : Dimension;
> end record with
> Convention => C;
>
> Zero_Size : constant Sizes := (others => Natural_Dimension'First);
>
> Why can't Zero_Size be compiled as static in this pre-elaborated
> package?
What exactly do you mean by "static"? That word has very different
meanings in C and Ada.
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Will write code for food.
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-14 3:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-11 12:40 Why can't objects be static in Ada? Lucretia
2019-04-11 12:56 ` Mark Lorenzen
2019-04-11 13:31 ` Lucretia
2019-04-11 22:49 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-04-12 1:56 ` Lucretia
2019-04-12 7:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-04-12 22:38 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-04-13 9:14 ` Lucretia
2019-04-12 6:59 ` Mark Lorenzen
2019-04-12 8:12 ` Simon Wright
2019-04-12 22:02 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-04-13 13:07 ` Jere
2019-04-13 13:48 ` Lucretia
2019-04-15 17:46 ` G. B.
2019-04-14 3:47 ` Keith Thompson [this message]
2019-04-16 0:08 ` sbelmont700
2019-04-16 1:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-04-16 12:11 ` Mark Lorenzen
2019-04-16 16:19 ` Simon Wright
2019-04-16 20:56 ` Lucretia
2019-04-16 21:07 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-04-16 21:16 ` Lucretia
2019-04-16 21:40 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-04-16 23:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-04-23 14:30 ` Mark Lorenzen
2019-04-16 23:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-04-22 20:05 ` Norman Worth
2019-04-16 20:54 ` Lucretia
2019-04-16 23:15 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-04-16 20:53 ` Lucretia
2019-04-18 13:32 ` sbelmont700
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