Re: Ada Tagged Type-Operation assign?

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

"patrick.gunia@googlemail.com" <patrick.gunia@googlemail.com> writes:

> What�s irritating me is the fact, that all my controlled types which
> are of course also tagged-types, don�t call this operation. Regarding
> an example I have the problem, that I don�t really know, where the
> operation is called, because VTune only tells me, that there is a big
> number of calls to this function, but it can�t tell me, where these
> calls take place. Of course I assume that the operation gets called,
> when I assign values to instances of my tagged-types, but I don�t
> think, that it would help, to show an example for such an assignment.
> Or am I getting your question for an example wrong?

Assignment is quite expensive for controlled types (or types containing
controlled types, etc).  Try out to the -gnatD and/or -gnatG switches
to see what's going on under the covers.

Assignment of tagged types is not particularly expensive, if not
controlled.

- Bob