From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org>
Subject: Re: To collection (GNAT bug)
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 03:08:03 GMT
Date: 2006-10-02T03:08:03+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <no%Tg.220117$1i1.171314@attbi_s72> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fbWdnZ65bPHY373YnZ2dnUVZ_uWdnZ2d@rcn.net>
Frank J. Lhota wrote:
>
> The reason why Address_To_Access_Conversions declares its own access type is
> to make sure that the access values used in these conversions are not "fat
> pointers". In other words, this design was chosen precisely to avoid the
> sort of problems exhibited in Test_String_Ptr.
Since you can instantiate System.Address_To_Access_Conversions with type
String, I don't see how its access type can be any different than one
you declare yourself.
--
Jeff Carter
"Monsieur Arthur King, who has the brain of a duck, you know."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-30 19:46 To collection (GNAT bug) Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-01 1:21 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-10-01 8:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-01 19:23 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-10-01 22:33 ` Frank J. Lhota
2006-10-02 3:08 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2006-10-02 13:02 ` Frank J. Lhota
2006-10-02 19:50 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-10-02 8:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-02 13:06 ` Frank J. Lhota
2006-10-02 13:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-04 17:18 ` Adam Beneschan
2006-10-04 18:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-02 19:45 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-10-03 8:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-03 19:10 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-10-04 8:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-04 9:27 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-10-04 12:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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