From: "Frank J. Lhota" <flhota.NOSPAM@ll.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: To collection (GNAT bug)
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:02:57 -0400
Date: 2006-10-02T09:02:57-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <w88Ug.2615$O5.2150@llslave.llan.ll.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <no%Tg.220117$1i1.171314@attbi_s72>
Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> Frank J. Lhota wrote:
>
> 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.
>
It can have pragmas and representation clauses needed to make sure that
the To_Pointer and To_Address functions are meaningful. For example, the
GNAT version of this package includes the representation clause
for Object_Pointer'Size use Standard'Address_Size;
which precludes implementing Object_Pointer as a "fat" pointer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-02 13:02 UTC|newest]
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
2006-10-02 13:02 ` Frank J. Lhota [this message]
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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