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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> Is this any different than if the subprogram was not generic?
> That is, suppose I just wrote a subprogram instead of an
> instantiation:
>      type Element_Array is array(Integer range <>) of Element;
>      procedure Sort(EA: in out Element_Array) is
>      begin
>          -- uses EA(i) > EA(j)
>      end
> and then I pass a pointer to Sort to another procedure.
> Doesn't the same sort of thing have to be done as for the
> generic?

No, because you can't pass a nested procedure to a less-nested
procedure.  So in a display implementation, you can always pass just the
address of the code.  In a static-link implementation, you can pass just
the address of the code for unnested procedures, and for procedures
nested one level deep, but you need a static link for deeper ones.

- Bob