New problem compiling g-exctra.adb

Diego Novillo dnovillo@redhat.com
Wed Sep 8 02:05:00 GMT 2004


On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 21:58, Richard Kenner wrote:
>     If you want to ignore such pointers, set PT_ANYTHING.  
> 
> I thought PT_ANYTHING means "this pointer can point to anything" so that
> any assignment through it will invalidate any addressable variable.
> That's exactly the *opposite* from what setting a pointer to zero means.
> 
Yes.  We are in violent agreement.  I only suggested PT_ANYTHING because
it is safe.  Dumb.  But safe.


Diego.



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