Re: 'address on a subprogram parameter

[Vincent Marciante <vincent.marciante@l3harris.com>]

On Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 4:17:43 PM UTC-4, Shark8 wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 11:18:24 AM UTC-6, Vincent Marciante wrote: 
> > I actually do not want to test that: I just wrote that as an attempt to 
> > make explicit want I was asking and what I did not expect (exception). 
> > I am really working with old code where I am moving some logic out 
> > from within a package body that contains the "address'd" variable to 
> > an unassociated package that defines the "Big_Record" type and I 
> > wanted to be sure that passing it as a parameter would (always) have 
> > the same behavior with the variable being passed as a parameter.
> Why not use genreics? 
> 
> Generic 
> Object : in out Big_Record; 
> Procedure Do_Something; 
> 
> Remember, also, that you can supply subprograms in the formal parameters.

Using a method that ensure that the parameter will be passed by reference 
is all that I need.  Generics would just add one extra step - the instantiation.