Re: Disriminant question

[Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>]

* prashna wrote:
> How to change discriminant value dynamically?

This is impossible. You can't change the discriminant, because the
instantiated variables does occupy different space. But you can set the
discriminant dynamically.

$ cat t.adb
with Ada.Text_IO;
use Ada.Text_IO;

procedure t is
   type DISC(some_disc : integer) is
     record
      case some_disc is
	 when 1 | 2 =>
	    int1, int2, int3 : integer;
	 when others =>
	    flt : float;
      end case;
   end record;
   
   function f (i : Integer) return DISC is
   begin
      declare
	 d : DISC(i);
      begin
	 return d;
      end;
   end f;
   
   disk1 : DISC(1);
   disk3 : DISC(3);

begin
   Put_Line ("disk1'Size =" & Natural'Image (disk1'Size));
   Put_Line ("disk3'Size =" & Natural'Image (disk3'Size));
   for i in 1 .. 5 loop
      declare
	 d : DISC(i);
      begin
	 Put_Line ("d'Size =" & Natural'Image (d'Size));
      end;
   end loop;
   for i in 1 .. 5 loop
      declare
	 e : DISC := f (i);
      begin
	 Put_Line ("e'Size =" & Natural'Image (e'Size));
      end;
   end loop;
end t;
$ t
disk1'Size = 128
disk3'Size = 64
d'Size = 128
d'Size = 128
d'Size = 64
d'Size = 64
d'Size = 64
e'Size = 128
e'Size = 128
e'Size = 64
e'Size = 64
e'Size = 64