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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: volatile vs aliased
Date: 06 Oct 2005 15:37:47 -0400
Date: 2005-10-06T15:37:47-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcchdbufnck.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Tce1f.7722$oc.146@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net

"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com> writes:

> Of course, if the C function has both pointer parameters and returns a
> value, access parameters are the only thing available. Is ease of
> interfacing to other languages another pro for allowing out and in out
> parameters for functions, along with making side effects visible?

Yes!  And that argument was brought up during the Ada 9X design.
Apparently, it didn't convince people.

- Bob



  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-06 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-05 15:22 volatile vs aliased REH
2005-10-05 18:22 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-10-05 18:39   ` REH
2005-10-05 19:46     ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-10-05 20:02       ` REH
2005-10-05 20:11         ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-10-05 20:20           ` REH
2005-10-06  5:21             ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-10-05 20:55       ` Simon Wright
2005-10-06 18:32       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-05 23:38   ` Randy Brukardt
2005-10-06  0:02     ` tmoran
2005-10-06 13:40     ` REH
2005-10-06 23:52       ` Randy Brukardt
2005-10-06 18:40     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-06 19:37       ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2005-10-06 23:56         ` Randy Brukardt
2005-10-06 19:08     ` REH
2005-10-06 19:21       ` Ed Falis
2005-10-06 19:37         ` REH
2005-10-06 19:46       ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-06  8:05   ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-06  8:52     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-10-06 11:36     ` Rolf
2005-10-06 18:43       ` Björn Persson
2005-10-06 19:03         ` Niklas Holsti
2005-10-07  6:36         ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-07  6:33       ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-07 15:56         ` Adrian Knoth
2005-10-07 18:48           ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-07 22:44           ` REH
2005-10-08  6:10         ` Simon Wright
2005-10-17  2:16         ` Dave Thompson
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