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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2013 bug?
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 16:04:02 -0400
Date: 2013-08-09T16:04:02-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcczjsqk4wd.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1pe6z4dg2xk9j$.1wdn31ijaldz3.dlg@40tude.net

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> Why? null considered an object is not class-wide, so I see no difference to
> plain parameters. null.Foo would be illegal anyway and Foo (null) would be
> ambiguous (in presence of several overriding instances).

    type T is tagged ...;
    type A is access T'Class;
    procedure P (X: access T);

    X : A := null;
    P(X); -- This is a dispatching call, so it needs to look at
          -- X.all'Tag, which doesn't exist.

- Bob


  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-09 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-09  9:47 GNAT GPL 2013 bug? Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-09 10:38 ` sbelmont700
2013-08-09 11:01   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-09 11:06     ` sbelmont700
2013-08-09 11:36       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-09 15:48     ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-09 16:11       ` Simon Wright
2013-08-09 16:52         ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-09 18:25           ` Simon Wright
2013-08-09 18:39             ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-09 19:28               ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-09 20:05                 ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-09 20:30                   ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-09 21:35                     ` Simon Wright
2013-08-10 15:10                     ` Shark8
2013-08-09 16:03     ` Simon Wright
2013-08-09 18:55     ` Randy Brukardt
2013-08-09 19:27       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-09 20:04         ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2013-08-10  6:51           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-12 16:52             ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-12 17:03               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-12 17:20                 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-08-12 18:34                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-12 20:12             ` Randy Brukardt
2013-08-13  6:43               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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