From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: How to get around "access type must not be outside generic unit"
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:49:24 -0500
Date: 2006-12-17T15:49:24-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccirgauu23.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ap0g54-fg8.ln1@hal.boavista.snafu.de
Michael Erdmann <michael.erdmann@snafu.de> writes:
>> procedure Register
>> (Str : in String; A : access function return Boolean);
>>
> Actually this does not work; compiler complains the anonymous types
> are not allowed here.
It's an Ada 2005 feature.
> private
> Install_Access : constant Callback_Access := Install'Access;
> But what is the gain of doing it like this. I don't see any
> gain in security..?!
It prevents dangling pointers. See AI-229.
- Bob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-17 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-17 10:07 How to get around "access type must not be outside generic unit" Michael Erdmann
2006-12-17 12:45 ` Pascal Obry
2006-12-17 14:28 ` Michael Erdmann
2006-12-17 15:53 ` Pascal Obry
2006-12-17 20:49 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2006-12-18 3:35 ` Brian May
2006-12-18 7:49 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-12-18 23:15 ` Brian May
2006-12-19 1:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-12-19 7:41 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-12-18 20:32 ` Michael Erdmann
2006-12-18 20:57 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-23 18:18 ` [Revisited] How to get around "access type must not be outside generic unit" (was: How to get around "access type must not be outside generic unit") Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-24 0:57 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-24 11:42 ` [Revisited] How to get around "access type must not be outside generic unit" Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-24 11:58 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-01-24 13:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-24 20:50 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-25 11:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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