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From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>
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Subject: Re: Passing the same actual as both in and out formal parameters?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:13:25 +0100
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Ludovic Brenta a �crit :
> My exampled was heavily simplified; the actual type has about a
> hundred components and the procedure P is a little more complex than
> swapping components :)
> 
> But thanks for the responses, Niklas and Jean-Pierre. They confirm my
> suspicion.
> 
But the important thing is that there is no risk: behaviour is well
defined, and will not change with the next release of the compiler.

If it is not the behaviour you want, you can make a local copy (but you
know that).

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