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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.