@Part(06, Root="ada.mss") @Comment{$Date: 2010/08/13 05:23:13 $} @LabeledSection{Subprograms} @Comment{$Source: e:\\cvsroot/ARM/Source/06.mss,v $} @Comment{$Revision: 1.101 $} @begin{Intro} @Defn{subprogram} @Defn{procedure} @Defn{function} A subprogram is a program unit or intrinsic operation whose execution is invoked by a subprogram call. There are two forms of subprogram: procedures and functions. A procedure call is a @nt{statement}; a function call is an expression and returns a value. The definition of a subprogram can be given in two parts: a subprogram declaration defining its interface, and a @nt{subprogram_body} defining its execution. @Redundant[Operators and enumeration literals are functions.] @begin{Honest} A function call is an expression, but more specifically it is a @nt. @end{Honest} @ChgToGlossary{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],Term=, Text=<@ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[A subprogram is a section of a program that can be executed in various contexts. It is invoked by a subprogram call that may qualify the effect of the subprogram through the passing of parameters. There are two forms of subprograms: functions, which return values, and procedures, which do not.]}>} @ChgToGlossary{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],Term=, Text=<@ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[A function is a form of subprogram that returns a result and can be called as part of an expression.]}>} @ChgToGlossary{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],Term=, Text=<@ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[A procedure is a form of subprogram that does not return a result and can only be called by a @nt{statement}.]}>} @Defn{callable entity} A @i(callable entity) is a subprogram or entry (see Section 9). @Defn{call} A callable entity is invoked by a @i{call}; that is, a subprogram call or entry call. @Defn{callable construct} A @i(callable construct) is a construct that defines the action of a call upon a callable entity: a @nt{subprogram_body}, @nt{entry_body}, or @nt{accept_statement}. @begin{Ramification} Note that @lquotes@;callable entity@rquotes@; includes predefined operators, enumeration literals, and abstract subprograms. @lquotes@;Call@rquotes@; includes calls of these things. They do not have callable constructs, since they don't have completions. @end{Ramification} @end{Intro} @LabeledClause{Subprogram Declarations} @begin{Intro} @Redundant[A @nt{subprogram_declaration} declares a procedure or function.] @end{Intro} @begin{Syntax} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00218-03]} @Syn{lhs=,rhs="@Chg{Version=[2],New=< [@Syn2{overriding_indicator}] >,Old=<>}@Syn2{subprogram_specification};"} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Deleted],ARef=[AI95-00348-01]} @DeletedSyn{Version=[2],lhs=<@Chg{Version=[2],New=<>,Old=}>, rhs="@Chg{Version=[2],New=<>,Old=<@Syn2{subprogram_specification} @key{is} @key{abstract};>}"} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00348-01]} @Syn{lhs=,rhs="@Chg{Version=[2],New=[ @Syn2{procedure_specification} | @Syn2{function_specification}],Old=[ @key{procedure} @Syn2{defining_program_unit_name} @Syn2{parameter_profile} | @key{function} @Syn2{defining_designator} @Syn2{parameter_and_result_profile}]}"} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00348-01]} @AddedSyn{Version=[2],lhs=<@Chg{Version=[2],New=,Old=<>}>, rhs="@Chg{Version=[2],New=<@key{procedure} @Syn2{defining_program_unit_name} @Syn2{parameter_profile}>,Old=<>}"} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00348-01]} @AddedSyn{Version=[2],lhs=<@Chg{Version=[2],New=,Old=<>}>, rhs="@Chg{Version=[2],New=<@key{function} @Syn2{defining_designator} @Syn2{parameter_and_result_profile}>,Old=<>}"} @Syn{lhs=,rhs="[@Syn2{parent_unit_name} . ]@Syn2{identifier} | @Syn2{operator_symbol}"} @Syn{lhs=, rhs="@Syn2{defining_program_unit_name} | @Syn2{defining_operator_symbol}"} @Syn{lhs=,rhs="[@Syn2{parent_unit_name} . ]@Syn2{defining_identifier}"} @begin{SyntaxText} @Redundant[The optional @nt{parent_unit_name} is only allowed for library units (see @RefSecNum{Compilation Units - Library Units}).] @end{SyntaxText} @Syn{lhs=,rhs="@Syn2{string_literal}"} @begin{SyntaxText} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00395-01]} The sequence of characters in an @nt{operator_symbol} shall @Chg{Version=[2], New=[form a reserved word, a delimiter, or compound delimiter that corresponds],Old=[correspond]} to an operator belonging to one of the six @Chg{Version=[2],New=[categories], Old=[classes]} of operators defined in clause @RefSecNum{Operators and Expression Evaluation}@Chg{Version=[2], New=[],Old=[(spaces are not allowed and the case of letters is not significant)]}. @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00395-01]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI05-0090-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[The @ldquote@;sequence of characters@rdquote of the string literal of the operator is a technical term (see @RefSecNum{String Literals}), and does not include the surrounding quote characters. As defined in @RefSecNum{Lexical Elements, Separators, and Delimiters}, lexical elements are @lquotes@;formed@rquotes from a sequence of characters. Spaces are not allowed, and upper and lower case is not significant.@Chg{Version=[3],New=[],Old=[ See @RefSecNum{Lexical Elements, Separators, and Delimiters} and @RefSecNum{Reserved Words} for rules related to the use of @ntf{other_format} characters in delimiters and reserved words.]}]} @end{Reason} @end{SyntaxText} @Syn{lhs=,rhs="@Syn2{operator_symbol}"} @Syn{lhs=,rhs="[@Syn2{formal_part}]"} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00231-01],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @Syn{lhs=,rhs="@Chg{Version=[2],New=[ ],Old=[]}[@Syn2{formal_part}] @key{return}@Chg{Version=[2],New=< [@Syn2{null_exclusion}]>,Old=<>} @Syn2{subtype_mark}@Chg{Version=[2],New=< | [@Syn2{formal_part}] @key{return} @Syn2{access_definition}>,Old=<>}"} @Syn{lhs=,rhs=" (@Syn2{parameter_specification} {; @Syn2{parameter_specification}})"} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00231-01]} @Syn{lhs=,rhs=" @Syn2{defining_identifier_list} : @Syn2{mode} @Chg{Version=[2],New=<[@Syn2{null_exclusion}]>,Old=<>} @Syn2{subtype_mark} [:= @Syn2{default_expression}] | @Syn2{defining_identifier_list} : @Syn2{access_definition} [:= @Syn2{default_expression}]"} @Syn{lhs=,rhs="[@key{in}] | @key{in} @key{out} | @key{out}"} @end{Syntax} @begin{Resolution} @Defn2{Term=[formal parameter], Sec=(of a subprogram)} A @i(formal parameter) is an object @Redundant[directly visible within a @nt{subprogram_body}] that represents the actual parameter passed to the subprogram in a call; it is declared by a @nt{parameter_specification}. @PDefn2{Term=[expected type], Sec=(parameter @nt{default_expression})} For a formal parameter, the expected type for its @nt, if any, is that of the formal parameter. @IndexSee{Term=[parameter],See=[formal parameter]} @end{Resolution} @begin{Legality} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI05-0143-1]} @Defn{parameter mode} The @i(parameter mode) of a formal parameter conveys the direction of information transfer with the actual parameter: @key(in), @key(in out), or @key(out). Mode @key(in) is the default, and is the mode of a parameter defined by an @nt{access_definition}.@Chg{Version=[3],New=[],Old=[ The formal parameters of a function, if any, shall have the mode @key(in).]} @begin{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Deleted],ARef=[AI05-0143-1]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[3],Text=[Access parameters are permitted. This restriction to @b(in) parameters is primarily a methodological restriction, though it also simplifies implementation for some compiler technologies.]} @end{Ramification} A @nt{default_expression} is only allowed in a @nt{parameter_specification} for a formal parameter of mode @key(in). @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00348-01]} @PDefn2{Term=[requires a completion], Sec=(@nt{subprogram_declaration})} @PDefn2{Term=[requires a completion], Sec=(@nt{generic_subprogram_declaration})} A @nt{subprogram_declaration} or a @nt{generic_subprogram_declaration} requires a completion: @Redundant[a body, a @nt (see @RefSecNum(Renaming Declarations)), or a @Chg{Version=[2],New=[@nt{pragma}], Old=[@key(pragma)]} Import (see @RefSecNum{Interfacing Pragmas})]. @Redundant[A completion is not allowed for an @nt@Chg{Version=[2],New=[ (see @RefSecNum{Abstract Types and Subprograms}) or a @nt{null_procedure_declaration} (see @RefSecNum{Null Procedures})],Old=[]}.] @begin(Ramification) @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00348-01]} Abstract subprograms @Chg{Version=[2],New=[and null procedures ],Old=[]}are not declared by @nt{subprogram_declaration}s, and so do not require completion. Protected subprograms are declared by @nt{subprogram_declaration}s, and so require completion. Note that an abstract subprogram is a subprogram, and a protected subprogram is a subprogram, but a generic subprogram is not a subprogram. @end(Ramification) A @nt{name} that denotes a formal parameter is not allowed within the @nt{formal_part} in which it is declared, nor within the @nt{formal_part} of a corresponding body or @nt{accept_statement}. @begin{Ramification} By contrast, @nts are visible to subsequent declarations in the same @nt. @end{Ramification} @end{Legality} @begin{StaticSem} @Defn{profile} The @i(profile) of (a view of) a callable entity is either a @nt{parameter_profile} or @nt{parameter_and_result_profile}@Redundant[; it embodies information about the interface to that entity @em for example, the profile includes information about parameters passed to the callable entity. All callable entities have a profile @em enumeration literals, other subprograms, and entries. An access-to-subprogram type has a designated profile.] Associated with a profile is a calling convention. A @nt declares a procedure or a function, as indicated by the initial reserved word, with name and profile as given by its specification. @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00231-01],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @PDefn2{Term=[nominal subtype], Sec=(of a formal parameter)} The nominal subtype of a formal parameter is the subtype @Chg{Version=[2],New=[determined],Old=[denoted]} by @Chg{Version=[2],New=[the optional @nt{null_exclusion} and ], Old=[]}the @nt{subtype_mark}, or defined by the @nt{access_definition}, in the @nt{parameter_specification}.@Chg{Version=[2],New=[ The nominal subtype of a function result is the subtype determined by the optional @nt{null_exclusion} and the @nt{subtype_mark}, or defined by the @nt{access_definition}, in the @nt{parameter_and_result_profile}. @PDefn2{Term=[nominal subtype], Sec=(of a function result)}], Old=[]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00231-01],ARef=[AI95-00254-01],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @Defn{access parameter} An @i(access parameter) is a formal @key[in] parameter specified by an @nt{access_definition}. @Defn{access result type} @Chg{Version=[2],New=[An @i(access result type) is a function result type specified by an @nt{access_definition}.],Old=[]} An access parameter @Chg{Version=[2],New=[or result type ],Old=[]}is of an anonymous @Chg{Version=[2],New=[access],Old=[general access-to-variable]} type (see @RefSecNum{Access Types}). @Redundant[Access parameters @Chg{Version=[2],New=[of an access-to-object type],Old=[]} allow dispatching calls to be controlled by access values.@Chg{Version=[2],New=[ Access parameters of an access-to-subprogram type permit calls to subprograms passed as parameters irrespective of their accessibility level.],Old=[]}] @begin{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[Access result types have normal accessibility and thus don't have any special properties worth noting here.]} @end{Discussion} @leading@keepnext@Defn2{Term=[subtypes], Sec=(of a profile)} The @i(subtypes of a profile) are: @begin{Itemize} For any non-access parameters, the nominal subtype of the parameter. @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00254-01]} For any access parameters@Chg{Version=[2],New=[ of an access-to-object type],Old=[]}, the designated subtype of the parameter type. @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00254-01]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[RevisedAdded],ARef=[AI05-0164-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[For any access parameters of an access-to-subprogram type, the subtypes of the @Chg{Version=[3],New=[designated ],Old=[]}profile of the parameter type.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00231-01],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @Chg{Version=[2],New=[For any non-access result, the nominal subtype of the function result.],Old=[For any result, the result subtype.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @Chg{Version=[2],New=[For any access result type of an access-to-object type, the designated subtype of the result type.],Old=[]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[RevisedAdded],ARef=[AI05-0164-1]} @Chg{Version=[2],New=[For any access result type of an access-to-subprogram type, the subtypes of the @Chg{Version=[3],New=[designated ],Old=[]}profile of the result type.],Old=[]} @end{Itemize} @Redundant[@Defn2{Term=[types], Sec=(of a profile)} The @i{types of a profile} are the types of those subtypes.] @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00348-01]} @Redundant[A subprogram declared by an @nt is abstract; a subprogram declared by a @nt is not. See @RefSec{Abstract Types and Subprograms}.@Chg{Version=[2],New=[ Similarly, a procedure defined by a @nt{null_procedure_declaration} is a null procedure; a procedure declared by a @nt{subprogram_declaration} is not. See @RefSec{Null Procedures}.],Old=[]}] @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00218-03]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@Redundant[An @nt{overriding_indicator} is used to indicate whether overriding is intended. See @RefSec{Overriding Indicators}.]]} @end{StaticSem} @begin{RunTime} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00348-01]} @PDefn2{Term=[elaboration], Sec=(subprogram_declaration)}@Chg{Version=[2],New=[],Old=[ @PDefn2{Term=[elaboration], Sec=(abstract_subprogram_declaration)}]} The elaboration of a @nt{subprogram_declaration}@Chg{Version=[2],New=[],Old=[ or an @nt{abstract_subprogram_declaration}]} has no effect. @end{RunTime} @begin{Notes} A @nt{parameter_specification} with several identifiers is equivalent to a sequence of single @nt{parameter_specification}s, as explained in @RefSecNum{Objects and Named Numbers}. Abstract subprograms do not have bodies, and cannot be used in a nondispatching call (see @RefSec{Abstract Types and Subprograms}). The evaluation of @nts is caused by certain calls, as described in @RefSecNum{Parameter Associations}. They are not evaluated during the elaboration of the subprogram declaration. Subprograms can be called recursively and can be called concurrently from multiple tasks. @end{Notes} @begin{Examples} @leading@keepnext@i{Examples of subprogram declarations:} @begin{Example} @key[procedure] Traverse_Tree; @key[procedure] Increment(X : @key[in] @key[out] Integer); @key[procedure] Right_Indent(Margin : @key[out] Line_Size); --@RI{ see @RefSecNum{Integer Types}} @key[procedure] Switch(From, To : @key[in] @key[out] Link); --@RI{ see @RefSecNum{Incomplete Type Declarations}} @key[function] Random @key[return] Probability; --@RI{ see @RefSecNum{Floating Point Types}} @key[function] Min_Cell(X : Link) @key[return] Cell; --@RI{ see @RefSecNum{Incomplete Type Declarations}} @key[function] Next_Frame(K : Positive) @key[return] Frame; --@RI{ see @RefSecNum{Access Types}} @key[function] Dot_Product(Left, Right : Vector) @key[return] Real; --@RI{ see @RefSecNum{Array Types}} @key[function] "*"(Left, Right : Matrix) @key[return] Matrix; --@RI{ see @RefSecNum{Array Types}} @end{Example} @begin{WideAbove} @leading@keepnext@i{Examples of @key[in] parameters with default expressions:} @end{WideAbove} @begin{Example} @key[procedure] Print_Header(Pages : @key[in] Natural; Header : @key[in] Line := (1 .. Line'Last => ' '); --@RI{ see @RefSecNum{Array Types}} Center : @key[in] Boolean := True); @end{Example} @end{Examples} @begin{Extend83} @Defn{extensions to Ada 83} The syntax for @nt{abstract_subprogram_declaration} is added. The syntax for @nt{parameter_specification} is revised to allow for access parameters (see @RefSecNum{Access Types}) Program units that are library units may have a @nt{parent_unit_name} to indicate the parent of a child (see Section 10). @end{Extend83} @begin{DiffWord83} We have incorporated the rules from RM83-6.5, @lquotes@;Function Subprograms@rquotes@; here and in @RefSec{Subprogram Bodies} We have incorporated the definitions of RM83-6.6, @lquotes@;Parameter and Result Type Profile - Overloading of Subprograms@rquotes@; here. The syntax rule for @nt{defining_operator_symbol} is new. It is used for the defining occurrence of an @nt{operator_symbol}, analogously to @nt{defining_identifier}. Usage occurrences use the @nt{direct_name} or @nt{selector_name} syntactic categories. The syntax rules for @nt{defining_designator} and @nt{defining_program_unit_name} are new. @end{DiffWord83} @begin{Extend95} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00218-03]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@Defn{extensions to Ada 95} Subprograms now allow @nt{overriding_indicator}s for better error checking of overriding.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00231-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[An optional @nt{null_exclusion} can be used in a formal parameter declaration. Similarly, an optional @nt{null_exclusion} can be used in a function result.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[The return type of a function can be an anonymous access type.]} @end{Extend95} @begin{DiffWord95} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00254-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[A description of the purpose of anonymous access-to-subprogram parameters and the definition of the profile of subprograms containing them was added.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00348-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[Split the production for @nt{subprogram_specification} in order to make the declaration of null procedures (see @RefSecNum{Null Procedures}) easier.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00348-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[Moved the @SyntaxTitle and @RuntimeTitle for @nt{abstract_subprogram_declaration} to @RefSecNum{Abstract Types and Subprograms}, so that the syntax and semantics are together. This also keeps abstract and null subprograms similar.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00395-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[Revised to allow @ntf{other_format} characters in @nt{operator_symbol}s in the same way as the underlying constructs.]} @end{DiffWord95} @begin{Extend2005} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0143-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@Defn{extensions to Ada 2005}The parameters of a function can now have any mode.]} @end{Extend2005} @LabeledClause{Formal Parameter Modes} @begin{Intro} @Redundant[A @nt{parameter_specification} declares a formal parameter of mode @key[in], @key[in out], or @key[out].] @end{Intro} @begin{StaticSem} @Defn{pass by copy} @Defn{by copy parameter passing} @Defn{copy parameter passing} @Defn{pass by reference} @Defn{by reference parameter passing} @Defn{reference parameter passing} A parameter is passed either @i{by copy} or @i{by reference}. @Redundant[When a parameter is passed by copy, the formal parameter denotes a separate object from the actual parameter, and any information transfer between the two occurs only before and after executing the subprogram. When a parameter is passed by reference, the formal parameter denotes (a view of) the object denoted by the actual parameter; reads and updates of the formal parameter directly reference the actual parameter object.] @Defn{by-copy type} A type is a @i(by-copy type) if it is an elementary type, or if it is a descendant of a private type whose full type is a by-copy type. A parameter of a by-copy type is passed by copy. @leading@keepnext@Defn{by-reference type} A type is a @i(by-reference type) if it is a descendant of one of the following: @begin(itemize) a tagged type; a task or protected type; @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI05-0096-1]} @Chg{Version=[3],New=[an explicitly limited record type],Old=[a nonprivate type with the reserved word @key[limited] in its declaration]}; @begin{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Deleted],ARef=[AI05-0096-1]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[3],Text=[A limited private type is by-reference only if it falls under one of the other categories.]} @end{Ramification} a composite type with a subcomponent of a by-reference type; a private type whose full type is a by-reference type. @end(itemize) A parameter of a by-reference type is passed by reference. @Defn2{Term=[associated object], Sec=(of a value of a by-reference type)} Each value of a by-reference type has an associated object. For a parenthesized expression, @nt{qualified_expression}, or @nt{type_conversion}, this object is the one associated with the operand. @begin{Ramification} By-reference parameter passing makes sense only if there is an object to reference; hence, we define such an object for each case. Since tagged types are by-reference types, this implies that every value of a tagged type has an associated object. This simplifies things, because we can define the tag to be a property of the object, and not of the value of the object, which makes it clearer that object tags never change. We considered simplifying things even more by making every value (and therefore every expression) have an associated object. After all, there is little semantic difference between a constant object and a value. However, this would cause problems for untagged types. In particular, we would have to do a constraint check on every read of a type conversion (or a renaming thereof) in certain cases. @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} We do not want this definition to depend on the view of the type; privateness is essentially ignored for this definition. Otherwise, things would be confusing (does the rule apply at the call site, at the site of the declaration of the subprogram, at the site of the @Chg{Version=[2],New=[return statement],Old=[@nt{return_statement}]}?), and requiring different calls to use different mechanisms would be an implementation burden. @RefSec{Shared Variable Control} says that a composite type with an atomic or volatile subcomponent is a by-reference type, among other things. @Defn2{Term=[associated object], Sec=(of a value of a limited type)} Every value of a limited by-reference type is the value of one and only one limited object. The @i{associated object} of a value of a limited by-reference type is the object whose value it represents. @Defn2{Term=[same value], Sec=(for a limited type)} Two values of a limited by-reference type are the @i{same} if and only if they represent the value of the same object. We say @lquotes@;by-reference@rquotes@; above because these statements are not always true for limited private types whose underlying type is nonlimited (unfortunately). @end{Ramification} @PDefn{unspecified} For parameters of other types, it is unspecified whether the parameter is passed by copy or by reference. @begin{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI05-0005-1]} There is no need to incorporate the discussion of AI83-00178, which requires pass-by-copy for certain kinds of actual parameters, while allowing pass-by-reference for others. This is because we explicitly indicate that a function creates an anonymous constant object for its result@Chg{Version=[3],New=[],Old=[, unless the type is a return-by-reference type]} (see @RefSecNum{Return Statements}). We also provide a special dispensation for instances of Unchecked_Conversion to return by reference@Chg{Version=[3],New=[],Old=[, even if the result type is not a return-by-reference type]} (see @RefSecNum{Unchecked Type Conversions}). @end{Discussion} @end{StaticSem} @begin{Bounded} @Defn{distinct access paths} @Defn2{Term=[access paths],Sec=(distinct)} @IndexSee{Term=[aliasing],See=(distinct access paths)} @PDefn2{Term=(bounded error),Sec=(cause)} If one @nt denotes a part of a formal parameter, and a second @nt denotes a part of a distinct formal parameter or an object that is not part of a formal parameter, then the two @nts are considered @i(distinct access paths). If an object is of a type for which the parameter passing mechanism is not specified, then it is a bounded error to assign to the object via one access path, and then read the value of the object via a distinct access path, unless the first access path denotes a part of a formal parameter that no longer exists at the point of the second access @Redundant[(due to leaving the corresponding callable construct).] @Defn2{Term=[Program_Error],Sec=(raised by failure of run-time check)} The possible consequences are that Program_Error is raised, or the newly assigned value is read, or some old value of the object is read. @begin{Discussion} For example, if we call @lquotes@;P(X => Global_Variable, Y => Global_Variable)@rquotes@;, then within P, the names @lquotes@;X@rquotes@;, @lquotes@;Y@rquotes@;, and @lquotes@;Global_Variable@rquotes@; are all distinct access paths. If Global_Variable's type is neither pass-by-copy nor pass-by-reference, then it is a bounded error to assign to Global_Variable and then read X or Y, since the language does not specify whether the old or the new value would be read. On the other hand, if Global_Variable's type is pass-by-copy, then the old value would always be read, and there is no error. Similarly, if Global_Variable's type is defined by the language to be pass-by-reference, then the new value would always be read, and again there is no error. @end{Discussion} @begin{Reason} We are saying @i(assign) here, not @i(update), because updating any subcomponent is considered to update the enclosing object. The @lquotes@;still exists@rquotes@; part is so that a read after the subprogram returns is OK. If the parameter is of a by-copy type, then there is no issue here @em the formal is not a view of the actual. If the parameter is of a by-reference type, then the programmer may depend on updates through one access path being visible through some other access path, just as if the parameter were of an access type. @end{Reason} @begin{ImplNote} The implementation can keep a copy in a register of a parameter whose parameter-passing mechanism is not specified. If a different access path is used to update the object (creating a bounded error situation), then the implementation can still use the value of the register, even though the in-memory version of the object has been changed. However, to keep the error properly bounded, if the implementation chooses to read the in-memory version, it has to be consistent -- it cannot then assume that something it has proven about the register is true of the memory location. For example, suppose the formal parameter is L, the value of L(6) is now in a register, and L(6) is used in an @nt{indexed_component} as in @lquotes@;A(L(6)) := 99;@rquotes@;, where A has bounds 1..3. If the implementation can prove that the value for L(6) in the register is in the range 1..3, then it need not perform the constraint check if it uses the register value. However, if the memory value of L(6) has been changed to 4, and the implementation uses that memory value, then it had better not alter memory outside of A. Note that the rule allows the implementation to pass a parameter by reference and then keep just part of it in a register, or, equivalently, to pass part of the parameter by reference and another part by copy. @end{ImplNote} @begin{Reason} @leading@;We do not want to go so far as to say that the mere presence of aliasing is wrong. We wish to be able to write the following sorts of things in standard Ada: @begin{Example} @key[procedure] Move ( Source : @key[in] String; Target : @key[out] String; Drop : @key[in] Truncation := Error; Justify : @key[in] Alignment := Left; Pad : @key[in] Character := Space); --@RI{ Copies elements from Source to Target (safely if they overlap)} @end{Example} This is from the standard string handling package. It would be embarrassing if this couldn't be written in Ada! The @lquotes@;then@rquotes@; before @lquotes@;read@rquotes@; in the rule implies that the implementation can move a read to an earlier place in the code, but not to a later place after a potentially aliased assignment. Thus, if the subprogram reads one of its parameters into a local variable, and then updates another potentially aliased one, the local copy is safe @em it is known to have the old value. For example, the above-mentioned Move subprogram can be implemented by copying Source into a local variable before assigning into Target. @leading@;For an @nt{assignment_statement} assigning one array parameter to another, the implementation has to check which direction to copy at run time, in general, in case the actual parameters are overlapping slices. For example: @begin{Example} @key[procedure] Copy(X : @key[in out] String; Y: String) @key[is] @key[begin] X := Y; @key[end] Copy; @end{Example} It would be wrong for the compiler to assume that X and Y do not overlap (unless, of course, it can prove otherwise). @end{Reason} @end{Bounded} @begin{Notes} A formal parameter of mode @key(in) is a constant view (see @RefSecNum{Objects and Named Numbers}); it cannot be updated within the @nt{subprogram_body}. @end{Notes} @begin{Extend83} @Defn{extensions to Ada 83} The value of an @key(out) parameter may be read. An @key(out) parameter is treated like a declared variable without an explicit initial expression. @end{Extend83} @begin{DiffWord83} Discussion of copy-in for parts of out parameters is now covered in @RefSec{Parameter Associations}. The concept of a by-reference type is new to Ada 95. We now cover in a general way in @RefSecNum{Operations of Discriminated Types} the rule regarding erroneous execution when a discriminant is changed and one of the parameters depends on the discriminant. @end{DiffWord83} @begin{DiffWord2005} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0096-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@b Corrected so that limited derived types are by-reference only if their parent is.]} @end{DiffWord2005} @LabeledClause{Subprogram Bodies} @begin{Intro} @Redundant[A @nt{subprogram_body} specifies the execution of a subprogram.] @end{Intro} @begin{Syntax} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00218-03]} @Syn{lhs=,rhs="@Chg{Version=[2],New=< [@Syn2{overriding_indicator}]>,Old=<>} @Syn2{subprogram_specification} @key{is} @Syn2{declarative_part} @key{begin} @Syn2{handled_sequence_of_statements} @key{end} [@Syn2{designator}];"} @begin{SyntaxText} If a @nt{designator} appears at the end of a @nt{subprogram_body}, it shall repeat the @nt{defining_designator} of the @nt{subprogram_specification}. @end{SyntaxText} @end{Syntax} @begin{Legality} @Redundant[In contrast to other bodies,] a @nt{subprogram_body} need not be the completion of a previous declaration@Redundant[, in which case the body declares the subprogram]. If the body is a completion, it shall be the completion of a @nt{subprogram_declaration} or @nt{generic_subprogram_declaration}. The profile of a @nt{subprogram_body} that completes a declaration shall conform fully to that of the declaration. @Defn2{Term=[full conformance],Sec=(required)} @end{Legality} @begin{StaticSem} A @nt{subprogram_body} is considered a declaration. It can either complete a previous declaration, or itself be the initial declaration of the subprogram. @end{StaticSem} @begin{RunTime} @PDefn2{Term=[elaboration], Sec=(non-generic subprogram_body)} The elaboration of a non-generic @nt{subprogram_body} has no other effect than to establish that the subprogram can from then on be called without failing the Elaboration_Check. @begin{Ramification} See @RefSecNum{Generic Bodies} for elaboration of a generic body. Note that protected @ntf{subprogram_bodies} never get elaborated; the elaboration of the containing @nt{protected_body} allows them to be called without failing the Elaboration_Check. @end{Ramification} @PDefn2{Term=[execution], Sec=(subprogram_body)} @Redundant[The execution of a @nt{subprogram_body} is invoked by a subprogram call.] For this execution the @nt{declarative_part} is elaborated, and the @nt{handled_sequence_of_statements} is then executed. @end{RunTime} @begin{Examples} @leading@keepnext@i{Example of procedure body:} @begin{Example} @key[procedure] Push(E : @key[in] Element_Type; S : @key[in] @key[out] Stack) @key[is] @key[begin] @key[if] S.Index = S.Size @key[then] @key[raise] Stack_Overflow; @key[else] S.Index := S.Index + 1; S.Space(S.Index) := E; @key[end] @key[if]; @key[end] Push; @end{Example} @begin{WideAbove} @leading@keepnext@i{Example of a function body:} @end{WideAbove} @begin{Example} @key[function] Dot_Product(Left, Right : Vector) @key[return] Real @key[is] Sum : Real := 0.0; @key[begin] Check(Left'First = Right'First @key[and] Left'Last = Right'Last); @key[for] J @key[in] Left'Range @key[loop] Sum := Sum + Left(J)*Right(J); @key[end] @key[loop]; @key[return] Sum; @key[end] Dot_Product; @end{Example} @end{Examples} @begin{Extend83} @Defn{extensions to Ada 83} A @nt{renaming_declaration} may be used instead of a @nt{subprogram_body}. @end{Extend83} @begin{DiffWord83} The syntax rule for @nt{subprogram_body} now uses the syntactic category @nt{handled_sequence_of_statements}. The @nt{declarative_part} of a @nt{subprogram_body} is now required; that doesn't make any real difference, because a @nt{declarative_part} can be empty. We have incorporated some rules from RM83-6.5 here. RM83 forgot to restrict the definition of elaboration of a @nt{subprogram_body} to non-generics. @end{DiffWord83} @begin{DiffWord95} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00218-03]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@nt{Overriding_indicator} is added to @nt{subprogram_body}.]} @end{DiffWord95} @LabeledSubClause{Conformance Rules} @begin{Intro} @Defn{conformance} @SeeAlso{Primary=[conformance],Other=(type conformance)} @SeeAlso{Primary=[conformance],Other=(mode conformance)} @SeeAlso{Primary=[conformance],Other=(subtype conformance)} @SeeAlso{Primary=[conformance],Other=(full conformance)} @Redundant[When subprogram profiles are given in more than one place, they are required to conform in one of four ways: type conformance, mode conformance, subtype conformance, or full conformance.] @end{Intro} @begin{StaticSem} @ChgRef{Version=[1],Kind=[Revised],Ref=[8652/0011],ARef=[AI95-00117-01]} @leading@Defn{convention} @Defn{calling convention} @Redundant[As explained in @RefSec{Interfacing Pragmas}, a @i{convention} can be specified for an entity.] @Chg{New=[Unless this International Standard states otherwise, the default convention of an entity is Ada.],Old=[]} @Redundant[For a callable entity or access-to-subprogram type, the convention is called the @i{calling convention}.] The following conventions are defined by the language: @begin{Itemize} @Defn{Ada calling convention} @Defn2{Term=[calling convention], Sec=(Ada)} The default calling convention for any subprogram not listed below is @i{Ada}. @Redundant[A @nt{pragma} Convention, Import, or Export may be used to override the default calling convention (see @RefSecNum{Interfacing Pragmas})]. @begin{Ramification} See also the rule about renamings-as-body in @RefSecNum{Subprogram Renaming Declarations}. @end{Ramification} @leading@Defn{Intrinsic calling convention} @Defn2{Term=[calling convention], Sec=(Intrinsic)} The @i{Intrinsic} calling convention represents subprograms that are @lquotes@;built in@rquotes@; to the compiler. The default calling convention is Intrinsic for the following: @begin{InnerItemize} an enumeration literal; a "/=" operator declared implicitly due to the declaration of "=" (see @RefSecNum{Overloading of Operators}); any other implicitly declared subprogram unless it is a dispatching operation of a tagged type; an inherited subprogram of a generic formal tagged type with unknown discriminants; @begin{Reason} @Comment{8652/0011 suggests that the reason for this rule be documented in the AARM.} @ChgRef{Version=[1],Kind=[Added]} @Chg{New=[Consider:],Old=[]} @begin{Example} @ChgRef{Version=[1],Kind=[Added]} @Chg{New=[@key[package] P @key[is] @key[type] Root @key[is tagged null record]; @key[procedure] Proc(X: Root); @key[end] P;],Old=[]} @ChgRef{Version=[1],Kind=[Added]} @Chg{New=[@key[generic] @key[type] Formal(<>) @key[is new] Root @key[with private]; @key[package] G @key[is] ... @key[end] G;],Old=[]} @ChgRef{Version=[1],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[1],Text=[@key[package body] G @key[is] ... X: Formal := ...; ... Proc(X); -- @RI[This is a dispatching call in Instance, because] -- @RI[the actual type for Formal is class-wide.] ... -- @RI[Proc'Access would be illegal here, because it is of] -- @RI[convention Intrinsic, by the above rule.] @key[end] G;]} @ChgRef{Version=[1],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[1],Text=[@key[type] Actual @key[is new] Root @key[with] ...; @key[procedure] Proc(X: Actual); @key[package] Instance @key[is new] G(Formal => Actual'Class); -- @RI[It is legal to pass in a class-wide actual, because Formal] -- @RI[has unknown discriminants.]]} @end{Example} @ChgRef{Version=[1],Kind=[Added]} @Chg{New=[Within Instance, all calls to Proc will be dispatching calls, so Proc doesn't really exist in machine code, so we wish to avoid taking 'Access of it. This rule applies to those cases where the actual type might be class-wide, and makes these Intrinsic, thus forbidding 'Access.],Old=[]} @end{Reason} an attribute that is a subprogram; @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00252-01]} a subprogram declared immediately within a @nt{protected_body}@Chg{Version=[2],New=[;],Old=[.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00252-01],ARef=[AI95-00407-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[any prefixed view of a subprogram (see @RefSecNum{Selected Components}).]} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[The profile of a prefixed view is different than the @lquotes@;real@rquotes profile of the subprogram (it doesn't have the first parameter), so we don't want to be able to take 'Access of it, as that would require generating a wrapper of some sort.]} @end{Reason} @end{InnerItemize} @NoPrefix@Redundant[The Access attribute is not allowed for Intrinsic subprograms.] @begin{Ramification} The Intrinsic calling convention really represents any number of calling conventions at the machine code level; the compiler might have a different instruction sequence for each intrinsic. That's why the Access attribute is disallowed. We do not wish to require the implementation to generate an out of line body for an intrinsic. Whenever we wish to disallow the Access attribute in order to ease implementation, we make the subprogram Intrinsic. Several language-defined subprograms have @lquotes@;@key[pragma] Convention(Intrinsic, ...);@rquotes@;. An implementation might actually implement this as @lquotes@;@key[pragma] Import(Intrinsic, ...);@rquotes@;, if there is really no body, and the implementation of the subprogram is built into the code generator. Subprograms declared in @ntf{protected_bodies} will generally have a special calling convention so as to pass along the identification of the current instance of the protected type. The convention is not @i(protected) since such local subprograms need not contain any @lquotes@;locking@rquotes@; logic since they are not callable via @lquotes@;external@rquotes@; calls; this rule prevents an access value designating such a subprogram from being passed outside the protected unit. The @lquotes@;implicitly declared subprogram@rquotes@; above refers to predefined operators (other than the "=" of a tagged type) and the inherited subprograms of untagged types. @end{Ramification} @Defn{protected calling convention} @Defn2{Term=[calling convention], Sec=(protected)} The default calling convention is @i{protected} for a protected subprogram, and for an access-to-subprogram type with the reserved word @key(protected) in its definition. @Defn{entry calling convention} @Defn2{Term=[calling convention], Sec=(entry)} The default calling convention is @i{entry} for an entry. @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00254-01],ARef=[AI95-00409-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[The calling convention for an anonymous access-to-subprogram parameter or anonymous access-to-subprogram result is @i if the reserved word @key{protected} appears in its definition and otherwise is the convention of the subprogram that contains the parameter.]} @begin{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[The calling convention for other anonymous access-to-subprogram types is Ada.]} @end{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[1],Kind=[Added],Ref=[8652/0011],ARef=[AI95-00117-01]} @Chg{Version=[1],New=[@Redundant[If not specified above as Intrinsic, the calling convention for any inherited or overriding dispatching operation of a tagged type is that of the corresponding subprogram of the parent type.] The default calling convention for a new dispatching operation of a tagged type is the convention of the type.], Old=[]} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[1],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[1],Text=[The first rule is officially stated in @RefSecNum(Dispatching Operations of Tagged Types). The second is intended to make interfacing to foreign OOP languages easier, by making the default be that the type and operations all have the same convention.]} @end{Reason} @end{Itemize} Of these four conventions, only Ada and Intrinsic are allowed as a @SynI{convention_}@nt{identifier} in a @nt{pragma} Convention, Import, or Export. @begin{Discussion} The names of the @i{protected} and @i{entry} calling conventions cannot be used in the interfacing pragmas. Note that @key[protected] and @key[entry] are reserved words. @end{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00409-01]} @Defn{type conformance} @Defn2{Term=[profile],Sec=(type conformant)} Two profiles are @i{type conformant} if they have the same number of parameters, and both have a result if either does, and corresponding parameter and result types are the same, or, for access parameters@Chg{Version=[2],New=[ or access results],Old=[]}, corresponding designated types are the same@Chg{Version=[2],New=[, or corresponding designated profiles are type conformant],Old=[]}. @IndexSee{Term=[type profile],See=(profile, type conformant)} @begin{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00409-01]} For @Chg{Version=[2],New=[anonymous access-to-object],Old=[access]} parameters, the designated types have to be the same for type conformance, not the access types, since in general each access parameter has its own anonymous access type, created when the subprogram is called. Of course, corresponding parameters have to be either both access parameters or both not access parameters. @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00409-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[Similarly, for anonymous access-to-subprogram parameters, the designated profiles of the types, not the types themselves, have to be conformant.]} @end{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00318-02],ARef=[AI95-00409-01]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI05-0207-1]} @Defn{mode conformance} @Defn2{Term=[profile],Sec=(mode conformant)} Two profiles are @i{mode conformant} if they are @Chg{Version=[3],New=[type conformant],Old=[type-conformant]}, @Chg{Version=[3],New=[],Old=[and ]}corresponding parameters have identical modes, and, for access parameters@Chg{Version=[2],New=[ or access result types],Old=[]}, the designated subtypes statically match@Chg{Version=[3],New=[ and either both or neither are access-to-constant],Old=[]}@Chg{Version=[2],New=[, or the designated profiles are subtype conformant.],Old=[]} @PDefn2{Term=[statically matching],Sec=(required)} @Defn{subtype conformance} @Defn2{Term=[profile],Sec=(subtype conformant)} Two profiles are @i{subtype conformant} if they are mode-conformant, corresponding subtypes of the profile statically match, and the associated calling conventions are the same. The profile of a generic formal subprogram is not subtype-conformant with any other profile. @PDefn2{Term=[statically matching],Sec=(required)} @begin{Ramification} @PDefn{generic contract issue} @end{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI05-0134-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Type=[Leading],Text=[]}@Comment{Dummy for conditional leading.} @Defn2{Term=[full conformance], Sec=(for profiles)} @Defn2{Term=[profile],Sec=(fully conformant)} Two profiles are @i{fully conformant} if they are subtype-conformant, @Chg{Version=[3],New=[if they have access-to-subprogram results whose designated profiles are fully conformant,],Old=[]}and corresponding parameters have@Chg{Version=[3],New=[:], Old=[ the same names and have @nts that are fully conformant with one another.]} @begin{Itemize} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[the same names; and]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI05-0046-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[both or neither have @nt{null_exclusion}s; and]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[neither have @nt{default_expression}s, or they both have @nt{default_expression}s that are fully conformant with one another; and]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI05-0134-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[for access-to-subprogram parameters, the designated profiles are fully conformant.]} @end{Itemize} @begin{Ramification} Full conformance requires subtype conformance, which requires the same calling conventions. However, the calling convention of the declaration and body of a subprogram or entry are always the same by definition. @end{Ramification} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0046-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[The part about @nt{null_exclusion}s is necessary to prevent controlling parameters from having different exclusions, as such a parameter is defined to exclude null whether or not an exclusion is given.]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0134-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[The parts about access-to-subprogram parameters and results is necessary to prevent such types from having different @nt{default_expression}s in the specification and body of a subprogram. If that was allowed, it would be undefined which @nt{default_expression} was used in a call of an access-to-subprogram parameter.]} @end{Reason} @leading@Defn2{Term=[full conformance], Sec=(for expressions)} Two expressions are @i(fully conformant) if, @Redundant[after replacing each use of an operator with the equivalent @nt{function_call}:] @begin{Itemize} each constituent construct of one corresponds to an instance of the same syntactic category in the other, except that an expanded name may correspond to a @nt{direct_name} (or @nt{character_literal}) or to a different expanded name in the other; and each @nt{direct_name}, @nt{character_literal}, and @nt{selector_name} that is not part of the @nt{prefix} of an expanded name in one denotes the same declaration as the corresponding @nt{direct_name}, @nt{character_literal}, or @nt{selector_name} in the other; and @begin{Ramification} Note that it doesn't say @lquotes@;respectively@rquotes@; because a @nt{direct_name} can correspond to a @nt{selector_name}, and vice-versa, by the previous bullet. This rule allows the @nt{prefix} of an expanded name to be removed, or replaced with a different @nt{prefix} that denotes a renaming of the same entity. However, it does not allow a @nt{direct_name} or @nt{selector_name} to be replaced with one denoting a distinct renaming (except for @nt{direct_name}s and @nt{selector_name}s in @nt{prefix}es of expanded names). Note that calls using operator notation are equivalent to calls using prefix notation. @leading@keepnext@;Given the following declarations: @begin{Example} @key[package] A @key[is] @key[function] F(X : Integer := 1) @key[return] Boolean; @key[end] A; @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI05-0005-1]} @key[with] A; @key[package] B @key[is] @key[package] A_View @key[renames] A; @key[function] F_View(X : Integer := 9999) @key[return] Boolean @key[renames] @Chg{Version=[3],New=[A.],Old=[]}F; @key[end] B; @key[with] A, B; @key[use] A, B; @key[procedure] Main @key[is] ... @end{Example} Within Main, the expressions @lquotes@;F@rquotes@;, @lquotes@;A.F@rquotes@;, @lquotes@;B.A_View.F@rquotes@;, and @lquotes@;A_View.F@rquotes@; are all fully conformant with one another. However, @lquotes@;F@rquotes@; and @lquotes@;F_View@rquotes@; are not fully conformant. If they were, it would be bad news, since the two denoted views have different @nt{default_expression}s. @end{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[1],Kind=[Added],Ref=[8652/0018],ARef=[AI95-00175-01]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[RevisedAdded],ARef=[AI05-0092-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[1],Text=[each @nt{attribute_designator} in one @Chg{Version=[3],New=[is],Old=[must be]} the same as the corresponding @nt{attribute_designator} in the other; and]} each @nt{primary} that is a literal in one has the same value as the corresponding literal in the other. @begin{Ramification} The literals may be written differently. @end{Ramification} @end{Itemize} @begin{Ramification} Note that the above definition makes full conformance a transitive relation. @end{Ramification} @Defn2{Term=[full conformance], Sec=(for @nt{known_discriminant_part}s)} Two @nt{known_discriminant_part}s are @i(fully conformant) if they have the same number of discriminants, and discriminants in the same positions have the same names, statically matching subtypes, and @nt{default_expression}s that are fully conformant with one another. @PDefn2{Term=[statically matching],Sec=(required)} @Defn2{Term=[full conformance], Sec=(for @nt{discrete_subtype_definition}s)} Two @nts are @i(fully conformant) if they are both @nts or are both @nts, the @nts (if any) denote the same subtype, and the corresponding @nts of the @nts (if any) fully conform. @begin{Ramification} In the @nt{subtype_indication} case, any ranges have to @i{be} corresponding; that is, two @nt{subtype_indication}s cannot conform unless both or neither has a @nt{range}. @end{Ramification} @begin{Discussion} This definition is used in @RefSec(Entries and Accept Statements) for the conformance required between the @nts of an @nt for a family of entries and the corresponding @nt of the @nt. @end{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00345-01],ARef=[AI95-00397-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@Defn{prefixed view profile} The @i of a subprogram is the profile obtained by omitting the first parameter of that subprogram. There is no prefixed view profile for a parameterless subprogram. For the purposes of defining subtype and mode conformance, the convention of a prefixed view profile is considered to match that of either an entry or a protected operation.]} @begin{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[This definition is used to define how primitive subprograms of interfaces match operations in task and protected type definitions (see @RefSecNum{Task Units and Task Objects} and @RefSecNum{Protected Units and Protected Objects}).]} @end{Discussion} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[The weird rule about conventions is pretty much required for synchronized interfaces to make any sense. There will be wrappers all over the place for interfaces anyway. Of course, this doesn't imply that entries have the same convention as protected operations.]} @end{Reason} @end{StaticSem} @begin{ImplPerm} An implementation may declare an operator declared in a language-defined library unit to be intrinsic. @end{ImplPerm} @begin{Extend83} @Defn{extensions to Ada 83} The rules for full conformance are relaxed @em they are now based on the structure of constructs, rather than the sequence of lexical elements. This implies, for example, that "(X, Y: T)" conforms fully with "(X: T; Y: T)", and "(X: T)" conforms fully with "(X: @key[in] T)". @end{Extend83} @begin{DiffWord95} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],Ref=[8652/0011],ARef=[AI95-00117-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@b Clarified that the default convention is Ada. Also clarified that the convention of a primitive operation of a tagged type is the same as that of the type.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],Ref=[8652/0018],ARef=[AI95-00175-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@b Added wording to ensure that two attributes conform only if they have the same @nt{attribute_designator}.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00252-01],ARef=[AI95-00254-01],ARef=[AI95-00407-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[Defined the calling convention for anonymous access-to-subprogram types and for prefixed views of subprograms (see @RefSecNum{Selected Components}).]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[Defined the conformance of access result types (see @RefSecNum{Subprogram Declarations}).]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00345-01],ARef=[AI95-00397-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[Defined the prefixed view profile of subprograms for later use.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00409-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[Defined the conformance of anonymous access-to-subprogram parameters.]} @end{DiffWord95} @begin{Incompatible2005} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0046-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@Defn{incompatibilities with Ada 2005}@b Now require @nt{null_exclusion}s to match for full conformance. While this is technically incompatible with Ada 2005 as defined by Amendment 1, it is a new Ada 2005 feature and it is unlikely that users have been intentionally taking advantage of the ability to write mismatching exclusions. In any case, it is easy to fix: add a @nt{null_exclusion} where needed for conformance.]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0134-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@b Now require full conformance of anonynous access-to-subprogram parameters and results for full conformance. This is necessary so that there is no confusion about the default expression that is used for a call. While this is technically incompatible with Ada 2005 as defined by Amendment 1, it is a new Ada 2005 feature and it is unlikely that users have been intentionally taking advantage and writing different default expressions. In any case, it is easy to fix: change any default expressions that don't conform so that they do conform.]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0207-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@b Now include the presence or absence of @key[constant] in access parameters to be considered when checking mode conformance. This is necessary to prevent modification of constants. While this is technically incompatible with Ada 2005 as defined by Amendment 1, it is a new Ada 2005 feature and it is unlikely that users have been intentionally taking advantage and writing mismatching access types.]} @end{Incompatible2005} @LabeledSubClause{Inline Expansion of Subprograms} @begin{Intro} @Redundant[Subprograms may be expanded in line at the call site.] @end{Intro} @begin{Syntax} @begin{SyntaxText} @leading@keepnext@PDefn2{Term=[program unit pragma], Sec=(Inline)} @PDefn2{Term=[pragma, program unit], Sec=(Inline)} The form of a @nt{pragma} Inline, which is a program unit pragma (see @RefSecNum{Pragmas and Program Units}), is as follows: @end{SyntaxText} @PragmaSyn`@key{pragma} @prag(Inline)(@Syn2{name} {, @Syn2{name}});' @end{Syntax} @begin{Legality} The @nt{pragma} shall apply to one or more callable entities or generic subprograms. @end{Legality} @begin{StaticSem} If a @nt{pragma} Inline applies to a callable entity, this indicates that inline expansion is desired for all calls to that entity. If a @nt{pragma} Inline applies to a generic subprogram, this indicates that inline expansion is desired for all calls to all instances of that generic subprogram. @begin{Ramification} @leading@;Note that inline expansion is desired no matter what name is used in the call. This allows one to request inlining for only one of several overloaded subprograms as follows: @begin{Example} @key[package] IO @key[is] @key[procedure] Put(X : @key[in] Integer); @key[procedure] Put(X : @key[in] String); @key[procedure] Put(X : @key[in] Character); @key[private] @key[procedure] Character_Put(X : @key[in] Character) @key[renames] Put; @key[pragma] Inline(Character_Put); @key[end] IO; @key[with] IO; @key[use] IO; @key[procedure] Main @key[is] I : Integer; C : Character; @key[begin] ... Put(C); --@RI{ Inline expansion is desired.} Put(I); --@RI{ Inline expansion is NOT desired.} @key[end] Main; @end{Example} @end{Ramification} @begin{Ramification} The meaning of a subprogram can be changed by a @nt{pragma} Inline only in the presence of failing checks (see @RefSecNum{Exceptions and Optimization}). @end{Ramification} @end{StaticSem} @begin{ImplPerm} For each call, an implementation is free to follow or to ignore the recommendation expressed by the @nt{pragma}. @begin{Ramification} Note, in particular, that the recommendation cannot always be followed for a recursive call, and is often infeasible for entries. Note also that the implementation can inline calls even when no such desire was expressed by a pragma, so long as the semantics of the program remains unchanged. @end{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00309-01]} @Chg{Version=[2],New=[An implementation may allow a @nt{pragma} Inline that has an argument which is a @nt{direct_name} denoting a @nt{subprogram_body} of the same @nt{declarative_part}.],Old=[]} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[This is allowed for Ada 83 compatibility. This is only a permission as this usage is considered obsolescent.]} @end{Reason} @begin{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[We only need to allow this in @nt{declarative_part}s, because a body is only allowed in another body, and these all have @nt{declarative_part}s.]} @end{Discussion} @end{ImplPerm} @begin{Notes} The @nt{name} in a @nt{pragma} Inline can denote more than one entity in the case of overloading. Such a @nt{pragma} applies to all of the denoted entities. @end{Notes} @begin{Incompatible83} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00309-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@Defn{incompatibilities with Ada 83} A pragma Inline cannot refer to a @nt{subprogram_body} outside of that body. The pragma can be given inside of the subprogram body. Ada 2005 adds an @ImplPermName to allow this usage for compatibility (and Ada 95 implementations also can use this permission), but implementations do not have to allow such @nt{pragma}s.]} @end{Incompatible83} @begin{Extend83} @Defn{extensions to Ada 83} A @nt{pragma} Inline is allowed inside a @nt{subprogram_body} if there is no corresponding @nt{subprogram_declaration}. This is for uniformity with other program unit pragmas. @end{Extend83} @begin{Extend95} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00309-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@Defn{extensions to Ada 95} @b[Amendment Correction:] Implementations are allowed to let @nt{Pragma} Inline apply to a @nt{subprogram_body}.]} @end{Extend95} @RMNewPage@Comment{For printed RM Ada 2005 only} @LabeledClause{Subprogram Calls} @begin{Intro} @Defn{subprogram call} A @i{subprogram call} is either a @nt{procedure_call_statement} or a @nt{function_call}; @Redundant[it invokes the execution of the @nt{subprogram_body}. The call specifies the association of the actual parameters, if any, with formal parameters of the subprogram.] @end{Intro} @begin{Syntax} @Syn{lhs=,rhs=" @SynI{procedure_}@Syn2{name}; | @SynI{procedure_}@Syn2{prefix} @Syn2{actual_parameter_part};"} @Syn{lhs=,rhs=" @SynI{function_}@Syn2{name} | @SynI{function_}@Syn2{prefix} @Syn2{actual_parameter_part}"} @begin{Honest} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0005-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[For the purpose of non-syntax rules, infix operator calls are considered @nt{function_call}s. See @RefSecNum{Overloading of Operators}.]} @end{Honest} @Syn{lhs=,rhs=" (@Syn2{parameter_association} {, @Syn2{parameter_association}})"} @Syn{lhs=,rhs=" [@SynI{formal_parameter_}@Syn2{selector_name} =>] @Syn2{explicit_actual_parameter}"} @Syn{lhs=,rhs="@Syn2{expression} | @SynI{variable_}@Syn2{name}"} @begin{SyntaxText} @Defn{named association} @Defn{positional association} A @nt{parameter_association} is @i{named} or @i{positional} according to whether or not the @SynI{formal_@!parameter_}@!@nt{selector_@!name} is specified. Any positional associations shall precede any named associations. Named associations are not allowed if the @nt{prefix} in a subprogram call is an @nt{attribute_@!reference}. @begin{Ramification} This means that the formal parameter names used in describing predefined attributes are to aid presentation of their semantics, but are not intended for use in actual calls. @end{Ramification} @end{SyntaxText} @end{Syntax} @begin{Resolution} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00310-01]} The @nt{name} or @nt{prefix} given in a @nt{procedure_call_statement} shall resolve to denote a callable entity that is a procedure, or an entry renamed as (viewed as) a procedure. The @nt{name} or @nt{prefix} given in a @nt{function_call} shall resolve to denote a callable entity that is a function.@Chg{Version=[2],New=[ The @nt{name} or @nt{prefix} shall not resolve to denote an abstract subprogram unless it is also a dispatching subprogram.],Old=[]} @Redundant[When there is an @nt, the @nt can be an @nt of an access-to-subprogram value.] @begin{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00310-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[This rule is talking about dispatching operations (which is a static concept) and not about dispatching calls (which is a dynamic concept).]} @end{Discussion} @begin{Ramification} The function can be an operator, enumeration literal, attribute that is a function, etc. @end{Ramification} A subprogram call shall contain at most one association for each formal parameter. Each formal parameter without an association shall have a @nt{default_expression} (in the profile of the view denoted by the @nt or @nt). This rule is an overloading rule (see @RefSecNum{The Context of Overload Resolution}). @end{Resolution} @begin{RunTime} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00345-01]} @PDefn2{Term=[execution], Sec=(subprogram call)} For the execution of a subprogram call, the @nt{name} or @nt{prefix} of the call is evaluated, and each @nt{parameter_@!association} is evaluated (see @RefSecNum{Parameter Associations}). If a @nt{default_@!expression} is used, an implicit @nt{parameter_@!association} is assumed for this rule. These evaluations are done in an arbitrary order. The @nt{subprogram_@!body} is then executed@Chg{Version=[2],New=[, or a call on an entry or protected subprogram is performed (see @RefSecNum{Dispatching Operations of Tagged Types})],Old=[]}. Finally, if the subprogram completes normally, then after it is left, any necessary assigning back of formal to actual parameters occurs (see @RefSecNum{Parameter Associations}). @begin{Discussion} The implicit association for a default is only for this run-time rule. At compile time, the visibility rules are applied to the default at the place where it occurs, not at the place of a call. @end{Discussion} @begin{Honest} If the subprogram is inherited, see @RefSec{Derived Types and Classes}. If the subprogram is protected, see @RefSec{Protected Subprograms and Protected Actions}. If the subprogram is really a renaming of an entry, see @RefSec{Entry Calls}. @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00345-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[If the subprogram is implemented by an entry or protected subprogram, it will be treated as a dispatching call to the corresponding entry (see @RefSec{Entry Calls}) or protected subprogram (see @RefSec{Protected Subprograms and Protected Actions}).]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00348-01]} Normally, the @nt{subprogram_body} that is executed by the above rule is the one for the subprogram being called. For an enumeration literal, implicitly declared (but noninherited) subprogram, @Chg{Version=[2],New=[null procedure, ],Old=[]}or an attribute that is a subprogram, an implicit body is assumed. For a dispatching call, @RefSec{Dispatching Operations of Tagged Types} defines which @nt{subprogram_body} is executed. @end{Honest} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00407-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[If the @nt{name} or @nt{prefix} of a subprogram call denotes a prefixed view (see @RefSecNum{Selected Components}), the subprogram call is equivalent to a call on the underlying subprogram, with the first actual parameter being provided by the @nt{prefix} of the prefixed view (or the Access attribute of this @nt{prefix} if the first formal parameter is an access parameter), and the remaining actual parameters given by the @nt{actual_parameter_part}, if any.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @Defn2{Term=[Program_Error],Sec=(raised by failure of run-time check)} The exception Program_Error is raised at the point of a @nt{function_call} if the function completes normally without executing a @Chg{Version=[2],New=[return statement],Old=[@nt{return_@!statement}]}. @begin{Discussion} We are committing to raising the exception at the point of call, for uniformity @em see AI83-00152. This happens after the function is left, of course. Note that there is no name for suppressing this check, since the check imposes no time overhead and minimal space overhead (since it can usually be statically eliminated as dead code). @end{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00231-01]} A @nt{function_call} denotes a constant, as defined in @RefSecNum{Return Statements}; the nominal subtype of the constant is given by the @Chg{Version=[2],New=[nominal],Old=[result]} subtype of the function@Chg{Version=[2],New=[ result],Old=[]}. @PDefn2{Term=[nominal subtype], Sec=(of the result of a @nt)} @PDefn2{Term=[constant], Sec=(result of a @nt)} @end{RunTime} @begin{Examples} @leading@keepnext@i{Examples of procedure calls:} @begin{Example} Traverse_Tree; --@RI{ see @RefSecNum{Subprogram Declarations}} Print_Header(128, Title, True); --@RI{ see @RefSecNum{Subprogram Declarations}} Switch(From => X, To => Next); --@RI{ see @RefSecNum{Subprogram Declarations}} Print_Header(128, Header => Title, Center => True); --@RI{ see @RefSecNum{Subprogram Declarations}} Print_Header(Header => Title, Center => True, Pages => 128); --@RI{ see @RefSecNum{Subprogram Declarations}} @end{Example} @begin{WideAbove} @leading@keepnext@i{Examples of function calls:} @end{WideAbove} @begin{Example} Dot_Product(U, V) --@RI{ see @RefSecNum{Subprogram Declarations} and @RefSecNum{Subprogram Bodies}} Clock --@RI{ see @RefSecNum{Delay Statements, Duration, and Time}} F.@key[all] --@RI{ presuming F is of an access-to-subprogram type @em see @RefSecNum{Access Types}} @end{Example} @begin{WideAbove} @leading@keepnext@i{Examples of procedures with default expressions:} @end{WideAbove} @begin{Example} @key[procedure] Activate(Process : @key[in] Process_Name; After : @key[in] Process_Name := No_Process; Wait : @key[in] Duration := 0.0; Prior : @key[in] Boolean := False); @key[procedure] Pair(Left, Right : @key[in] Person_Name := @key[new] Person); --@RI{ see @RefSecNum{Incomplete Type Declarations}} @end{Example} @begin{WideAbove} @leading@keepnext@i{Examples of their calls:} @end{WideAbove} @begin{Example} Activate(X); Activate(X, After => Y); Activate(X, Wait => 60.0, Prior => True); Activate(X, Y, 10.0, False); Pair; Pair(Left => @key[new] Person, Right => @key[new] Person); @end{Example} @end{Examples} @begin{Notes} If a @nt{default_expression} is used for two or more parameters in a multiple @nt{parameter_@!specification}, the @nt{default_@!expression} is evaluated once for each omitted parameter. Hence in the above examples, the two calls of Pair are equivalent. @end{Notes} @begin{Examples} @leading@keepnext@i{Examples of overloaded subprograms:} @begin{Example} @key[procedure] Put(X : @key[in] Integer); @key[procedure] Put(X : @key[in] String); @key[procedure] Set(Tint : @key[in] Color); @key[procedure] Set(Signal : @key[in] Light); @end{Example} @begin{WideAbove} @leading@keepnext@i{Examples of their calls:} @end{WideAbove} @begin{Example} Put(28); Put("no possible ambiguity here"); Set(Tint => Red); Set(Signal => Red); Set(Color'(Red)); --@RI{ Set(Red) would be ambiguous since Red may} --@RI{ denote a value either of type Color or of type Light} @end{Example} @end{Examples} @begin{DiffWord83} We have gotten rid of parameters @lquotes@;of the form of a type conversion@rquotes@; (see RM83-6.4.1(3)). The new view semantics of @nt{type_conversion}s allows us to use normal @nt{type_conversion}s instead. We have moved wording about run-time semantics of parameter associations to @RefSecNum{Parameter Associations}. We have moved wording about raising Program_Error for a function that falls off the end to here from RM83-6.5. @end{DiffWord83} @begin{Extend95} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00310-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@Defn{extensions to Ada 95} Nondispatching abstract operations are no longer considered when resolving a subprogram call. That makes it possible to use @key{abstract} to @lquotes@;undefine@rquotes@; a predefined operation for an untagged type. That's especially helpful when defining custom arithmetic packages.]} @end{Extend95} @begin{DiffWord95} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00231-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[Changed the definition of the nominal subtype of a @nt{function_call} to use the nominal subtype wording of @RefSecNum{Subprogram Declarations}, to take into account @nt{null_exclusion}s and access result types.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00345-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[Added wording to clarify that the meaning of a call on a subprogram @lquotes@;implemented by@rquotes an entry or protected operation is defined by @RefSecNum{Dispatching Operations of Tagged Types}.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00407-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[Defined the meaning of a call on a prefixed view of a subprogram (see @RefSecNum{Selected Components}).]} @end{DiffWord95} @LabeledSubClause{Parameter Associations} @begin{Intro} @Redundant[@Defn{parameter passing} A parameter association defines the association between an actual parameter and a formal parameter.] @end{Intro} @begin{MetaRules} The parameter passing rules for @b(out) parameters are designed to ensure that the parts of a type that have implicit initial values (see @RefSecNum{Object Declarations}) don't become @lquotes@;de-initialized@rquotes@; by being passed as an @b(out) parameter. @end{MetaRules} @begin{Resolution} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI05-0118-1]} The @SynI{formal_parameter_}@nt{selector_name} of a@Chg{Version=[3],New=[ named],Old=[]} @nt{parameter_@!association} shall resolve to denote a @nt{parameter_@!specification} of the view being called@Chg{Version=[3],New=[; @Defn{named association}@Defn{positional association}@Defn{named parameter association}@Defn{positional parameter association}this is the formal parameter of the association. The formal parameter for a positional @nt{parameter_@!association} is the parameter with the corresponding position in the formal part of the view being called],Old=[]}. @begin{Honest} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0118-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[For positional parameters, the @ldquote@;corresponding position@rdquote is calculated after any transformation of prefixed views.]} @end{Honest} @Defn2{Term=[actual parameter], Sec=(for a formal parameter)} The @i(actual parameter) is either the @nt given in a @nt for a given formal parameter, or the corresponding @nt if no @nt is given for the formal parameter. @Defn2{Term=[expected type], Sec=(actual parameter)} The expected type for an actual parameter is the type of the corresponding formal parameter. @begin{Honest} The corresponding @nt is the one of the corresponding formal parameter in the profile of the view denoted by the @nt or @nt of the call. @end{Honest} If the mode is @key(in), the actual is interpreted as an @nt{expression}; otherwise, the actual is interpreted only as a @nt{name}, if possible. @begin{Ramification} This formally resolves the ambiguity present in the syntax rule for @nt. Note that we don't actually require that the actual be a @nt if the mode is not @key(in); we do that below. @end{Ramification} @end{Resolution} @begin{Legality} If the mode is @key(in out) or @key(out), the actual shall be a @nt that denotes a variable. @begin{Discussion} We no longer need @lquotes@;or a @nt{type_conversion} whose argument is the @nt{name} of a variable,@rquotes@; because a @nt{type_conversion} is now a @nt{name}, and a @nt{type_conversion} of a variable is a variable. @end{Discussion} @begin{Reason} @leading@;The requirement that the actual be a (variable) @nt is not an overload resolution rule, since we don't want the difference between @nt and @nt{name} to be used to resolve overloading. For example: @begin{Example} procedure Print(X : @key[in] Integer; Y : @key[in] Boolean := True); procedure Print(Z : @key[in out] Integer); . . . Print(3); --@RI{ Ambiguous!} @end{Example} The above call to Print is ambiguous even though the call is not compatible with the second Print which requires an actual that is a (variable) @nt (@lquotes@;3@rquotes@; is an @nt, not a @nt). This requirement is a legality rule, so overload resolution fails before it is considered, meaning that the call is ambiguous. @end{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI05-0102-1],ARef=[AI05-0144-2]} @leading@;@Chg{Version=[3],New=[Two @nt{name}s are @i{known to denote the same object} if:@Defn{known to denote the same object}], Old=[The type of the actual parameter associated with an access parameter shall be convertible (see @RefSecNum{Type Conversions}) to its anonymous access type. @PDefn2{Term=[convertible],Sec=(required)}]} @begin{Itemize} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[both @nt{name}s statically denote the same stand-alone object or parameter; or]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[both @nt{name}s are @nt{selected_component}s, their @nt{prefix}es are known to denote the same object, and their @nt{selector_name}s denote the same component; or]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[both @nt{name}s are dereferences (implicit or explicit) and the dereferenced @nt{name}s are known to denote the same object; or]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[both @nt{name}s are @nt{indexed_component}s, their @nt{prefix}es are known to denote the same object, and each of the pairs of corresponding index values are either static expressions with the same value or @nt{name}s that are known to denote the same object; or]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[both @nt{name}s are @nt{slice}s, their @nt{prefix}es are known to denote the same object, and the two @nt{slice}s have statically matching index constraints; or]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[one of the two @nt{name}s statically denotes a renaming declaration whose renamed @SynI{object_}@nt{name} is known to denote the same object as the other, the @nt{prefix} of any dereference within the renamed @SynI{object_}@nt{name} is not a variable, and any @nt{expression} within the renamed @SynI{object_}@nt{name} contains no references to variables nor calls on non-static functions.]} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Type=[Leading],Text=[This exposes known renamings of slices, indexing, and so on to this definition. In particular, if we have]} @begin{Example} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Type=[Leading],Text=[C : Character @key[renames] S(1);]} @end{Example} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Type=[Trailing],Text=[then C and S(1) are known to denote the same object.]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Type=[Leading],Text=[We need the requirement that no variables occur in the @nt{prefix}es of dereferences and in (index) @nt{expression}s of the renamed object in order to avoid problems from later changes to those parts of renamed names. Consider:]} @begin{Example} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Type=[Leading],Text=[ @key[type] Ref @key[is access] Some_Type; Ptr : Ref := @key[new] Some_Type'(...); X : Some_Type @key[renames] Ptr.@key[all]; @key[begin] Ptr := @key[new] Some_Type'(...); P (Func_With_Out_Params (Ptr.@key[all]), X);]} @end{Example} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Type=[Trailing],Text=[X and Ptr.@key[all] should not be known to denote the same object, since they denote different allocated objects (and this is not an unreasonable thing to do).]} @end{Reason} @begin{Honest} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Type=[Leading],Text=[The exclusion of variables from renamed object_names is not enough to prevent altering the value of the name or expression by another access path. For instance, both @key[in] parameters passed by reference and access-to-constant values can designate variables. For the intended use of "known to be the same object", this is OK; the modification via another access path is very tricky and it is OK to reject code that would be buggy except for the tricky code. For example:]} @begin{Example} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[Global : Tagged_Type;]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@key{procedure} Foo (Param : @key{in} Tagged_Type := Global) @key{is} X : Element @key{renames} Some_Global_Array (Param.C); @key{begin} Global.C := Global.C + 1; Swap (X, Some_Global_Array (Param.C));]} @end{Example} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[The rules will flag the call of procedure Swap as illegal, since X and Some_Global_Array (Parameter.C) are known to denote the same object (even though they will actually represent different objects if Param = Global). But this is only incorrect if the parameter actually is Global and not some other value; the error could exist for some calls. So this flagging seems harmless.]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[Similar examples can be constructed using stand-alone composite constants with controlled or immutably limited components, and (as previously noted) with dereferences of access-to-constant values. Even when these examples flag a call incorrectly, that call depends on very tricky code (modifying the value of a constant); the code is likely to confuse future maintainers as well and thus we do not mind rejecting it.]} @end{Honest} @end{Itemize} @begin{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[Whether or not @nt{name}s or @nt{prefix}es are known to denote the same object is determined statically. If the name contains some dynamic portion other than a dereference, @nt{indexed_component}, or @nt{slice}, it is not "known to denote the same object".]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[These rules make no attempt to handle slices of objects that are known to be the same when the slices have dynamic bounds (other than the trivial case of bounds being defined by the same subtype), even when the bounds could be proven to be the same, as it is just too complex to get right and these rules are intended to be conservative.]} @end{Discussion} @begin{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Type=[Leading],Text=["Known to denote the same object" is intended to be an equivalence relationship, that is, it is reflexive, symmetric, and transitive. We believe this follows from the rules. For instance, given the following declarations:]} @begin{Example} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Type=[Leading],Text=[S : String(1..10); ONE : @key[constant] Natural := 1; R : Character @key[renames] S(1);]} @end{Example} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Type=[Trailing],Text=[the names R and S(1) are known to denote the same object by the sixth bullet, and S(1) and S(ONE) are known to denote the same object by the fourth bullet, so using the sixth bullet on R and S(ONE), we simply have to test S(1) vs. S(ONE), which we already know denote the same object.]} @end{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI05-0144-2]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Type=[Leading],Text=[Two @nt{name}s are @i{known to refer to the same object} if @Defn{known to refer to the same object}]} @begin{Itemize} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[The two @nt{name}s are known to denote the same object; or]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[One of the @nt{name}s is a @nt{selected_component}, @nt{indexed_component}, or @nt{slice} and its @nt{prefix} is known to refer to the same object as the other @nt{name}; or]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[One of the two @nt{name}s statically denotes a renaming declaration whose renamed @SynI{object_}@nt{name} is known to refer to the same object as the other @nt{name}.]} @end{Itemize} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[This ensures that names Prefix.Comp and Prefix are known to refer to the same object for the purposes of the rules below. This intentionally does not include dereferences; we only want to worry about accesses to the same object, and a dereference changes the object in question. (There is nothing shared between an access value and the object it designates.)]} @end{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI05-0144-2]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Type=[Leading],Text=[ If a call @i has two or more parameters of mode @key[in out] or @key[out] that are of an elementary type, then the call is legal only if:]} @begin{Itemize} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[For each @nt{name} @i that is passed as a parameter of mode @key[in out] or @key[out] to the call @i, there is no other @nt{name} among the other parameters of mode @key[in out] or @key[out] to @i that is known to denote the same object.]} @begin{Honest} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[This means @i{visibly} an elementary type; it does not include partial views of elementary types (partial views are always composite). That's necessary to avoid having @LegalityTitle depend on the contents of the private part.]} @end{Honest} @end{Itemize} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI05-0144-2]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Type=[Leading],Text=[If a construct @i has two or more direct constituents that are @nt{name}s or @nt{expression}s whose evaluation may occur in an arbitrary order, at least one of which contains a function call with an @key[in out] or @key[out] parameter, then the construct is legal only if:]} @begin{Itemize} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[For each name @i that is passed as a parameter of mode @key[in out] or @key[out] to some inner function call @i (not including the construct @i itself), there is no other @nt{name} anywhere within a direct constituent of the construct @i other than the one containing @i, that is known to refer to the same object.]} @end{Itemize} @begin{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[This requirement cannot fail for a procedure or entry call alone; there must be at least one function with an @key[in out] or @key[out] parameter called as part of a parameter expression of the call in order for it to fail.]} @end{Ramification} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[These rules prevent obvious cases of dependence on the order of evaluation of @nt{name}s or @nt{expression}s. Such dependence is usually a bug, and in any case, is not portable to another implementation (or even another optimization setting).]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[In the case that the top-level construct C is a call, these rules do not require checks for most @key[in out] parameters, as the rules about evaluation of calls prevent problems. Similarly, we do not need checks for short circuit operations or other operations with a defined order of evaluation. The rules about arbitrary order (see @RefSecNum{Method of Description and Syntax Notation}) allow evaluating parameters and writing parameters back in an arbitrary order, but not interleaving of evaluating parameters of one call with writing parameters back from another @em that would not correspond to any allowed sequential order.]} @end{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI05-0144-2]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Type=[Leading],Text=[For the purposes of checking this rule:]} @begin{Itemize} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[For an array @nt{aggregate}, an @nt{expression} associated with a @nt{discrete_choice_list} that has two or more discrete choices, or that has a nonstatic range, is considered as two or more separate occurrences of the @nt{expression};]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Type=[Leading],Text=[For a record @nt{aggregate}:]} @begin{InnerItemize} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[The @nt{expression} of a @nt{record_component_association} is considered to occur once for each associated component; and]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[The @nt{default_expression} for each @nt{record_component_association} with <> for which the associated component has a @nt{default_expression} is considered part of the @nt{aggregate};]} @end{InnerItemize} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[For a call, any @nt{default_expression} evaluated as part of the call is considered part of the call.]} @end{Itemize} @begin{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[We do not check expressions that are evaluated only because of a component initialized by default in an aggregate (via <>).]} @end{Ramification} @end{Legality} @begin{RunTime} @leading@keepnext@PDefn2{Term=[evaluation], Sec=(parameter_association)} For the evaluation of a @nt{parameter_association}: @begin{Itemize} The actual parameter is first evaluated. For an access parameter, the @nt{access_definition} is elaborated, which creates the anonymous access type. For a parameter @Redundant[(of any mode)] that is passed by reference (see @RefSecNum{Formal Parameter Modes}), a view conversion of the actual parameter to the nominal subtype of the formal parameter is evaluated, and the formal parameter denotes that conversion. @PDefn2{Term=[implicit subtype conversion],Sec=(parameter passing)} @begin{Discussion} We are always allowing sliding, even for [@key(in)] @key(out) by-reference parameters. @end{Discussion} @Defn2{Term=[assignment operation], Sec=(during evaluation of a @nt{parameter_association})} For an @key(in) or @key(in out) parameter that is passed by copy (see @RefSecNum{Formal Parameter Modes}), the formal parameter object is created, and the value of the actual parameter is converted to the nominal subtype of the formal parameter and assigned to the formal. @PDefn2{Term=[implicit subtype conversion],Sec=(parameter passing)} @begin{Ramification} The conversion mentioned here is a value conversion. @end{Ramification} @leading@keepnext@;For an @key(out) parameter that is passed by copy, the formal parameter object is created, and: @begin(itemize) @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI05-0196-1]} For an access type, the formal parameter is initialized from the value of the actual, without @Chg{Version=[3],New=[checking that the value satisfies any constraint or any exclusion of the null value],Old=[a constraint check]}; @begin{Reason} This preserves the @MetaRulesName that an object of an access type is always initialized with a @lquotes@;reasonable@rquotes@; value. @end{Reason} For a composite type with discriminants or that has implicit initial values for any subcomponents (see @RefSecNum{Object Declarations}), the behavior is as for an @key[in out] parameter passed by copy. @begin{Reason} This ensures that no part of an object of such a type can become @lquotes@;de-initialized@rquotes@; by being part of an @b(out) parameter. @end{Reason} @begin{Ramification} This includes an array type whose component type is an access type, and a record type with a component that has a @nt{default_expression}, among other things. @end{Ramification} For any other type, the formal parameter is uninitialized. If composite, a view conversion of the actual parameter to the nominal subtype of the formal is evaluated @Redundant[(which might raise Constraint_Error)], and the actual subtype of the formal is that of the view conversion. If elementary, the actual subtype of the formal is given by its nominal subtype. @begin{Ramification} This case covers scalar types, and composite types whose subcomponent's subtypes do not have any implicit initial values. The view conversion for composite types ensures that if the lengths don't match between an actual and a formal array parameter, the Constraint_Error is raised before the call, rather than after. @end{Ramification} @end(itemize) @end{Itemize} @PDefn2{Term=[constrained],Sec=(object)} @PDefn2{Term=[unconstrained],Sec=(object)} A formal parameter of mode @key[in out] or @key[out] with discriminants is constrained if either its nominal subtype or the actual parameter is constrained. @Defn{parameter copy back} @Defn{copy back of parameters} @Defn{parameter assigning back} @Defn{assigning back of parameters} @Defn2{Term=[assignment operation], Sec=(during parameter copy back)} After normal completion and leaving of a subprogram, for each @key(in out) or @key(out) parameter that is passed by copy, the value of the formal parameter is converted to the subtype of the variable given as the actual parameter and assigned to it. @PDefn2{Term=[implicit subtype conversion],Sec=(parameter passing)} These conversions and assignments occur in an arbitrary order. @begin{Ramification} The conversions mentioned above during parameter passing might raise Constraint_Error @em (see @RefSecNum{Type Conversions}). @end{Ramification} @begin{Ramification} If any conversion or assignment as part of parameter passing propagates an exception, the exception is raised at the place of the subprogram call; that is, it cannot be handled inside the @nt{subprogram_body}. @end{Ramification} @begin{TheProof} Since these checks happen before or after executing the @nt{subprogram_body}, the execution of the @nt{subprogram_body} does not dynamically enclose them, so it can't handle the exceptions. @end{TheProof} @begin{Discussion} The variable we're talking about is the one denoted by the @i{variable_}@nt{name} given as the @nt{explicit_actual_parameter}. If this @i{variable_}@nt{name} is a @nt{type_conversion}, then the rules in @RefSecNum{Type Conversions} for assigning to a view conversion apply. That is, if X is of subtype S1, and the actual is S2(X), the above-mentioned conversion will convert to S2, and the one mentioned in @RefSecNum{Type Conversions} will convert to S1. @end{Discussion} @end{RunTime} @begin{Erron} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI05-0008-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@PDefn2{Term=(erroneous execution),Sec=(cause)}If the nominal subtype of a formal parameter with discriminants is constrained or indefinite, and the parameter is passed by reference, then the execution of the call is erroneous if the value of any discriminant of the actual is changed while the formal parameter exists (that is, before leaving the corresponding callable construct).]} @end{Erron} @begin{Extend83} @Defn{extensions to Ada 83} In Ada 95, a program can rely on the fact that passing an object as an @key[out] parameter does not @lquotes@;de-initialize@rquotes@; any parts of the object whose subtypes have implicit initial values. (This generalizes the RM83 rule that required copy-in for parts that were discriminants or of an access type.) @end{Extend83} @begin{DiffWord83} We have eliminated the subclause on Default Parameters, as it is subsumed by earlier clauses and subclauses. @end{DiffWord83} @begin{Inconsistent2005} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0196-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@Defn{inconsistencies with Ada 2005} @b Clarified that @key[out] parameters of an access type are not checked for null exclusions when they are passed in (which is similar to the behavior for constraints. This was unspecified in Ada 2005, so a program which depends on the behavior of an implementation which does check the exclusion may malfunction. But a program depending on an exception being raised is unlikely.]} @end{Inconsistent2005} @begin{Incompatible2005} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0144-2]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@Defn{incompatibilities with Ada 2005} Additional rules have been added to make illegal passing the same elementary object to more than one @key[in out] or @key[out] parameters of the same call. In this case, the result in the object could depend on the compiler version, optimization settings, and potentially the phase of the moon, so this check will mostly reject programs that are non-portable and could fail with any change. Even when the result is expected to be the same in both parameters, the code is unnecessarily tricky. Programs which fail this new check should be rare and are easily fixed by adding a temporary object.]} @end{Incompatible2005} @begin{DiffWord2005} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0008-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@b A missing rule was added to cover cases that were missed in Ada 95 and Ada 2005; specifically, that an @key[in] parameter passed by reference might have its discriminants changed via another path. Such cases are erroneous as requiring compilers to detect such errors would be expensive, and requiring such cases to work would be a major change of the user model (@key[in] parameters with discriminants could no longer be assumed constant). This is not an inconsistency, as compilers are not required to change any current behavior.]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0102-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@b Moved implicit conversion @LegalityName to @RefSecNum{The Context of Overload Resolution}.]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0118-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@b Added a definition for positional parameters, as this is missing from Ada 95 and later.]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0144-2]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[Additional rules have been added such that passing an object to an @key[in out] or @key[out] parameter of a function illegal if it is used elsewhere in a construct which allows evaluation in an arbitrary order. Such calls are not portable (since the results may depend on the evaluation order), and the results could even vary because of optimization settings and the like. Thus they've been banned.]} @end{DiffWord2005} @LabeledClause{Return Statements} @begin{Intro} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} A @Chg{Version=[2],New=[@nt{simple_@!return_@!statement} or @nt{extended_@!return_@!statement} (collectively called a @i) @Defn{return statement}],Old=[@nt{return_statement}]} is used to complete the execution of the innermost enclosing @nt{subprogram_@!body}, @nt{entry_@!body}, or @nt{accept_@!statement}. @end{Intro} @begin{Syntax} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @Syn{lhs=<@Chg{Version=[2],New=[simple_return_statement],Old=[return_statement]}>,rhs="@key{return} [@Syn2{expression}];"} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[RevisedAdded],ARef=[AI05-0015-1],ARef=[AI05-0053-1]} @AddedSyn{Version=[2],lhs=<@Chg{Version=[2],New=[extended_return_statement],Old=[]}>, rhs="@Chg{Version=[2],New=< @key{return} @Syn2{defining_identifier} : [@Chg{Version=[3],New=<@Key{constant}>,Old=[@Key{aliased}]}] @Syn2{return_subtype_indication} [:= @Syn2{expression}] [@Key{do} @Syn2{handled_sequence_of_statements} @key{end} @key{return}];>,Old=[]}"} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @AddedSyn{Version=[2],lhs=<@Chg{Version=[2],New=[return_subtype_indication],Old=[]}>, rhs="@Chg{Version=[2],New=<@Syn2{subtype_indication} | @Syn2{access_definition}>,Old=[]}"} @end{Syntax} @begin{Resolution} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @Chg{Version=[2],New=[@Defn2{Term=[result subtype], Sec=(of a function)} The @i of a function is the subtype denoted by the @nt, or defined by the @nt, after the reserved word @key in the profile of the function.@PDefn2{Term=[expected type], Sec=(@nt{expression} of @nt)}],Old=[@Defn{return expression} The @nt{expression}, if any, of a @nt{return_statement} is called the @i{return expression}. @Defn2{Term=[result subtype], Sec=(of a function)} The @i(result subtype) of a function is the subtype denoted by the @nt{subtype_mark} after the reserved word @key(return) in the profile of the function.@PDefn2{Term=[expected type], Sec=(return expression)}]} The expected type for @Chg{Version=[2],New=[the @nt{expression}, if any, of a @nt{simple_@!return_@!statement}],Old=[a return expression]} is the result type of the corresponding function.@Chg{Version=[2],New=[ @PDefn2{Term=[expected type], Sec=(@nt{expression} of @nt{extended_return_statement})} The expected type for the @nt{expression} of an @nt{extended_return_statement} is that of the @nt{return_@!subtype_@!indication}.],Old=[]} @begin{Honest} The same applies to generic functions. @end{Honest} @end{Resolution} @begin{Legality} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @Chg{Version=[2],New=[@Defn2{Term=[apply], Sec=(to a callable construct by a return statement)}], Old=[@Defn2{Term=[apply], Sec=(to a callable construct by a @nt{return_statement})}]} A @Chg{Version=[2],New=[return statement],Old=[@nt{return_@!statement}]} shall be within a callable construct, and it @i{applies to} the innermost @Chg{Version=[2],New=[callable construct or @nt{extended_return_statement} that contains it],Old=[one]}. A @Chg{Version=[2],New=[return statement],Old=[@nt{return_@!statement}]} shall not be within a body that is within the construct to which the @Chg{Version=[2],New=[return statement],Old=[@nt{return_@!statement}]} applies. @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI05-0015-1]} A function body shall contain at least one @Chg{Version=[2],New=[return statement],Old=[@nt{return_@!statement}]} that applies to the function body, unless the function contains @nt{code_statement}s. A @Chg{Version=[2],New=[@nt{simple_@!return_@!statement}],Old=[@nt{return_@!statement}]} shall include @Chg{Version=[2],New=[an @nt{expression}],Old=[a return expression]} if and only if it applies to a function body.@Chg{Version=[2],New=[ An @nt shall apply to a function body.],Old=[]}@Chg{Version=[3],New=[ An @nt{extended_return_statement} with the reserved word @key[constant] shall include an @nt{expression}.],Old=[]} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} The requirement that a function body has to have at least one @Chg{Version=[2],New=[return statement],Old=[@nt{return_@!statement}]} is a @lquotes@;helpful@rquotes@; restriction. There @Chg{Version=[2],New=[has],Old=[was]} been some interest in lifting this restriction, or allowing a raise statement to substitute for the @Chg{Version=[2],New=[return statement],Old=[@nt{return_@!statement}]}. However, there was enough interest in leaving it as is that we decided not to change it. @end{Reason} @begin{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[A return statement can apply to an @nt{extended_return_statement}, so a @nt{simple_@!return_@!statement} without an @nt{expression} can be given in one. However, neither @nt{simple_@!return_@!statement} with an @nt{expression} nor an @nt{extended_return_statement} can be given inside an @nt{extended_return_statement}, as they must apply (directly) to a function body.]} @end{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Type=[Leading],Text=[For an @nt{extended_@!return_@!statement} that applies to a function body:]} @begin{Itemize} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[RevisedAdded],ARef=[AI05-0032-1],ARef=[AI05-0103-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[If the result subtype of the function is defined by a @nt{subtype_mark}, the @nt{return_@!subtype_@!indication} shall be a @nt{subtype_indication}. The type of the @nt{subtype_indication} shall be@Chg{Version=[3],New=[ covered by],Old=[]} the result type of the function. @Chg{Version=[3],New=[The],Old=[If the result subtype of the function is constrained, then the]} subtype defined by the @nt{subtype_indication} shall @Chg{Version=[3],New=[be statically compatible with the result subtype of the function; if the result type of the function is elementary, the two subtypes],Old=[also be constrained and]} shall statically match@Chg{Version=[3],New=[],Old=[ this result subtype]}.@PDefn2{Term=[statically matching],Sec=(required)} If the result subtype of the function is @Chg{Version=[3],New=[indefinite], Old=[unconstrained]}, then the subtype defined by the @nt{subtype_indication} shall be a definite subtype, or there shall be an @nt{expression}.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[If the result subtype of the function is defined by an @nt{access_definition}, the @nt{return_@!subtype_@!indication} shall be an @nt{access_definition}. The subtype defined by the @nt{access_definition} shall statically match the result subtype of the function. The accessibility level of this anonymous access subtype is that of the result subtype.]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI05-0032-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[If the result subtype of the function is class-wide, the accessibility level of the type of the subtype defined by the @nt{return_subtype_indication} shall not be statically deeper than that of the master that elaborated the function body.]} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[In this case, the @nt{return_subtype_indication} could be a specific type initialized by default; in that case there is no @nt{expression} to check.]} @end{Reason} @end{Itemize} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[RevisedAdded],ARef=[AI05-0032-1]}@Comment{Paragraph number only change} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Type=[Leading],Text=[For any return statement that applies to a function body:]} @begin{Itemize} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[RevisedAdded],ARef=[AI05-0032-1]}@Comment{Paragraph number only change} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[If the result subtype of the function is limited, then the @nt{expression} of the return statement (if any) shall be an @nt{aggregate}, a function call (or equivalent use of an operator), or a @nt{qualified_expression} or parenthesized expression whose operand is one of these.]} @begin{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[In other words, if limited, the @nt{expression} must produce a @lquotes@;new@rquotes@; object, rather than being the name of a preexisting object (which would imply copying).]} @end{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00416-01]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[RevisedAdded],ARef=[AI05-0032-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[If the result subtype of the function is class-wide, the accessibility level of the type of the @nt{expression} @Chg{Version=[3],New=[(if any) ],Old=[]}of the return statement shall not be statically deeper than that of the master that elaborated the function body. If the result subtype has one or more unconstrained access discriminants, the accessibility level of the anonymous access type of each access discriminant, as determined by the @nt{expression} of the @nt{simple_@!return_@!statement} or the @nt{return_@!subtype_@!indication}, shall not be statically deeper than that of the master that elaborated the function body.]} @begin{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI05-0032-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@Chg{Version=[3],New=[If],Old=[We know that if]} the result type is class wide, then there must be an @nt{expression} of the return statement@Chg{Version=[3],New=[ unless this is an @nt{extended_return_statement} whose @nt{return_subtype_indication} is a specific type. We have a separate rule to cover that case. Note that if an @nt{extended_return_statement} has an @nt{expression}, then both rules must be satisfied. For the second sentence],Old=[. Similarly]}, if the result subtype is unconstrained, then either the @nt{return_@!subtype_@!indication} (if any) is constrained, or there must be an @nt{expression}.]} @end{Discussion} @end{Itemize} @end{Legality} @begin{StaticSem} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[RevisedAdded],ARef=[AI05-0015-1],ARef=[AI05-0144-2]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@PDefn2{Term=[return object], Sec=(extended_return_statement)} Within an @nt{extended_return_statement}, the @i{return object} is declared with the given @nt{defining_identifier}, with the nominal subtype defined by the @nt{return_@!subtype_@!indication}.@Chg{Version=[3],New=[ An @nt{extended_return_statement} with the reserved word @key[constant] is a full constant declaration that declares the return object to be a constant object.],Old=[]}]} @end{StaticSem} @begin{RunTime} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-00318-02],ARef=[AI95-00416-01]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[RevisedAdded],ARef=[AI05-0032-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@PDefn2{Term=[execution], Sec=(extended_return_statement)} For the execution of an @nt{extended_return_statement}, the @nt{subtype_indication} or @nt{access_definition} is elaborated. This creates the nominal subtype of the return object. If there is an @nt{expression}, it is evaluated and converted to the nominal subtype (which might raise Constraint_Error @em see @RefSecNum{Type Conversions}@PDefn2{Term=[implicit subtype conversion],Sec=(function return)}); the return object is created and the converted value is assigned to the return object. Otherwise, the return object is created and initialized by default as for a stand-alone object of its nominal subtype (see @RefSecNum{Object Declarations}). If the nominal subtype is indefinite, the return object is constrained by its initial value.@PDefn2{Term=[creation],Sec=[of a return object]}@PDefn{constrained by its initial value}@Chg{Version=[3],New=[ A check is made that the value of the return object belongs to the function result subtype. Constraint_Error is raised if this check fails.@Defn2{Term=[Constraint_Error], Sec=(raised by failure of run-time check)} @IndexCheck{Discriminant_Check}],Old=[]}]} @begin{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[If the result type is controlled or has a controlled part, appropriate calls on Initialize or Adjust are performed prior to executing the @nt{handled_sequence_of_statements}, except when the initial expression is an @nt{aggregate} (which requires build-in-place with no call on Adjust).]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI05-0005-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[If the return statement is left without resulting in a return (for example, due to an exception propagated from the @nt{expression} or the @nt{handled_sequence_of_statements}, or a goto out of the @nt{handled_sequence_of_statements}), @Chg{Version=[3],New=[if ],Old=[]}the return object @Chg{Version=[3],New=[has been created, it ],Old=[]}is finalized prior to leaving the return statement.@Chg{Version=[3],New=[ If it has not been created when the return statement is left, it is not created or finalized.],Old=[]}]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0032-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[Other rules ensure that the check required by this rule cannot fail unless the function has a class-wide result subtype where the associated specific subtype is constrained. In other cases, either the subtypes have to match or the function's subtype is unconstrained and needs no checking.]} @end{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @Chg{Version=[2],New=[@PDefn2{Term=[execution], Sec=(simple_@!return_@!statement)}], Old=[@PDefn2{Term=[execution], Sec=(return_statement)}]} For the execution of a @Chg{Version=[2],New=[@nt{simple_@!return_@!statement}], Old=[@nt{return_statement}]}, the @nt{expression} (if any) is first evaluated@Chg{Version=[2],New=[,],Old=[ and]} converted to the result subtype@Chg{Version=[2], New=[, and then is assigned to the anonymous @i{return object}. @PDefn2{Term=[return object], Sec=(simple_@!return_@!statement)}],Old=[.]} @PDefn2{Term=[implicit subtype conversion],Sec=(function return)} @begin{Ramification} The conversion might raise Constraint_Error @em (see @RefSecNum{Type Conversions}). @end{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00318-02],ARef=[AI95-00416-01]} @Chg{Version=[2],New=[@Redundant[If the return object has any parts that are tasks, the activation of those tasks does not occur until after the function returns (see @RefSecNum{Task Execution - Task Activation}).]], Old=[If the result type is class-wide, then the tag of the result is the tag of the value of the @nt.]} @begin{TheProof} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[This is specified by the rules in @RefSecNum{Task Execution - Task Activation}.]} @end{TheProof} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[Only the caller can know when task activations should take place, as it depends on the context of the call. If the function is being used to initialize the component of some larger object, then that entire object must be initialized before any task activations. Even after the outer object is fully initialized, task activations are still postponed until the @key{begin} at the end of the declarative part if the function is being used to initialize part of a declared object.]} @end{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00318-02],ARef=[AI95-00344-01]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI05-0024-1],ARef=[AI05-0032-1]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Type=[Leading],Keepnext=[T],Text=[]}@ChgNote{A dummy ChgDeleted to get conditional "Leading".}If the result type @Chg{Version=[2],New=[of a function ],Old=[]}is a specific tagged type@Chg{Version=[2],New=[, the tag of the return object is that of the result type. If the result type is class-wide, the tag of the return object is that of @Chg{Version=[3],New=[the type of the @nt{subtype_indication} if it is specific, or otherwise that of ],Old=[]}the value of the @Chg{Version=[3],New=[@nt{expression}],Old=[expression]}. A check is made that the @Chg{Version=[3],New=[master],Old=[accessibility level]} of the type identified by the tag of the result @Chg{Version=[3],New=[includes the elaboration],Old=[is not deeper than that]} of the master that elaborated the function body. If this check fails, Program_Error is raised.@Defn2{Term=[Program_Error], Sec=(raised by failure of run-time check)} @IndexCheck{Accessibility_Check}],Old=[:]} @begin{Ramification} @ChgNote{Moved from after paragraph 10} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[The first sentence is true even if the tag of the @nt{expression} is different, which could happen if the @nt{expression} were a view conversion or a dereference of an access value. Note that for a limited type, because of the restriction to @nt{aggregate}s and function calls (and no conversions), the tag will already match]}. @end{Ramification} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[The first rule ensures that a function whose result type is a specific tagged type always returns an object whose tag is that of the result type. This is important for dispatching on controlling result, and allows the caller to allocate the appropriate amount of space to hold the value being returned (assuming there are no discriminants).]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[The @Chg{Version=[3],New=[master ],Old=[]}check prevents the returned object from outliving its type. Note that this check cannot fail for a specific tagged type, as the tag represents the function's type, which necessarily must be declared outside of the function.]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[We can't use the normal accessibility level @lquotes@;deeper than@rquotes@; check here because we may have @lquotes@;incomparable@rquotes@; levels if the masters belong to two different tasks. This can happen when an accept statement calls a function declared in the enclosing task body, and the function returns an object passed to it from the accept statement, and this object was itself a parameter to the accept statement.]} @end{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI05-0073-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@IndexCheck{Tag_Check}If the result subtype of the function is defined by an @nt{access_definition} designating a specific tagged type @i, a check is made that the result value is null or the tag of the object designated by the result value identifies @i. @Defn2{Term=[Constraint_Error],Sec=(raised by failure of run-time check)} Constraint_Error is raised if this check fails.]} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[This check is needed so that dispatching on controlling access results works for tag-indeterminate functions. If it was not made, it would be possible for such functions to return an access to a decendant type, meaning the function could return an object with a tag different than the one assumed by the dispatching rules.]} @end{Reason} @begin{NotIso} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Noprefix=[T],Noparanum=[T],Text=[@Shrink{@i}]}@Comment{This message should be deleted if the paragraphs are ever renumbered.} @end{NotIso} @begin(itemize) @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[DeletedNoDelMsg],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Text=[@IndexCheck{Tag_Check} If it is limited, then a check is made that the tag of the value of the return expression identifies the result type. @Defn2{Term=[Constraint_Error],Sec=(raised by failure of run-time check)} Constraint_Error is raised if this check fails.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[DeletedNoDelMsg],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Text=[If it is nonlimited, then the tag of the result is that of the result type.]} @begin{Ramification} @ChgNote{These two notes were revised and moved up} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[DeletedNoDelMsg],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Text=[This is true even if the tag of the return expression is different.]} @end{Ramification} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[DeletedNoDelMsg],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Text=[These rules ensure that a function whose result type is a specific tagged type always returns an object whose tag is that of the result type. This is important for dispatching on controlling result, and, if nonlimited, allows the caller to allocate the appropriate amount of space to hold the value being returned (assuming there are no discriminants).]} @end{Reason} @end(itemize) @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[DeletedNoDelMsg],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Type=[Leading],Keepnext=[T], Text=[@Defn{return-by-reference type} A type is a @i(return-by-reference) type if it is a descendant of one of the following:]} @begin(itemize) @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[DeletedNoDelMsg],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Text=[a tagged limited type;]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[DeletedNoDelMsg],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Text=[a task or protected type;]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[DeletedNoDelMsg],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Text=[a nonprivate type with the reserved word @b(limited) in its declaration;]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[DeletedNoDelMsg],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Text=[a composite type with a subcomponent of a return-by-reference type;]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[DeletedNoDelMsg],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Text=[a private type whose full type is a return-by-reference type.]} @end(itemize) @begin{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[DeletedNoDelMsg]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Text=[ The above rules are such that there are no "Ada 83" types other than those containing tasks that are return-by-reference. This helps to minimize upward incompatibilities relating to return-by-reference.]} @end{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[DeletedNoDelMsg],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Type=[Leading],Text=[@IndexCheck{Accessibility_Check} If the result type is a return-by-reference type, then a check is made that the return expression is one of the following:]} @begin(itemize) @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[DeletedNoDelMsg],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Text=[a @nt{name} that denotes an object view whose accessibility level is not deeper than that of the master that elaborated the function body; or]} @begin{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[DeletedNoDelMsg],ARef=[AI95-00316-01]} @ChgNote{This really wasn't in the previous version, but we don't want it in a version without deletions shown...} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Text=[This rule was unnecessarily confusing, and the parenthetical remark "(or a value with an associated object, see 6.2)" was added @em and then the entire concept was deleted.]} @end{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[DeletedNoDelMsg],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Text=[a parenthesized expression or @nt{qualified_expression} whose operand is one of these kinds of expressions.]} @end(itemize) @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[DeletedNoDelMsg],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Text=[@Defn2{Term=[Program_Error],Sec=(raised by failure of run-time check)} The exception Program_Error is raised if this check fails.]} @begin{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[DeletedNoDelMsg]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Text=[Compare the definition of return-by-reference with that of by-reference.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[DeletedNoDelMsg]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Text=[The return-by-reference types are all limited types except those that are limited only because of a limited private type with a nonlimited untagged full type.]} @end{Discussion} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[DeletedNoDelMsg]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Text=[@PDefn{generic contract issue} This check can often be performed at compile time. It is defined to be a run-time check to avoid generic contract model problems. In a future version of the standard, we anticipate that function return of a local variable will be illegal for all limited types, eliminating the need for the run-time check except for dereferences of an access parameter.]} @end{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00318-02],ARef=[AI95-00402-01],ARef=[AI95-00416-01]} @Chg{Version=[2], New=[If the result subtype of a function has one or more unconstrained access discriminants, a check is made that the accessibility level of the anonymous access type of each access discriminant, as determined by the @nt{expression} or the @nt{return_@!subtype_@!indication} of the function, is not deeper than that of the master that elaborated the function body. If this check fails, Program_Error is raised. @Defn2{Term=[Program_Error],Sec=(raised by failure of run-time check)} @IndexCheck{Accessibility_Check}], Old=[For a function with a return-by-reference result type the result is returned by reference; that is, the function call denotes a constant view of the object associated with the value of the return expression. @Defn2{Term=[assignment operation], Sec=(during execution of a @nt{return_statement})} For any other function, the result is returned by copy; that is, the converted value is assigned into an anonymous constant created at the point of the @nt{return_statement}, and the function call denotes that object.]} @begin{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Deleted]} @ChgDeleted{Version=[2],Text=[The assignment operation does the necessary value adjustment, as described in @RefSec{Assignment and Finalization}. @RefSecNum{Completion and Finalization} describes when the anonymous constant is finalized.]} @end{Ramification} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[The check prevents the returned object (for a nonlimited type) from outliving the object designated by one of its discriminants. The check is made on the values of the discriminants, which may come from the @nt{return_@!subtype_@!indication} (if constrained), or the @nt{expression}, but it is never necessary to check both.]} @end{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI05-0058-1]} @Chg{Version=[2],New=[For the execution of an @nt{extended_@!return_@!statement}, the @nt{handled_@!sequence_@!of_@!statements} is executed. Within this @nt{handled_@!sequence_@!of_@!statements}, the execution of a @nt{simple_@!return_@!statement} that applies to the @nt{extended_@!return_@!statement} causes a transfer of control that completes the @nt{extended_@!return_@!statement}. Upon completion of a return statement that applies to a callable construct@Chg{Version=[3], New=[ by the normal completion of a @nt{simple_return_statement} or by reaching the @key[end return] of an @nt{extended_return_statement}], Old=[]}],Old=[Finally]}, a transfer of control is performed which completes the execution of the callable construct@Chg{Version=[2],New=[], Old=[ to which the @nt{return_@!statement} applies]}, and returns to the caller. @begin{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0058-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[A transfer of control that completes an @nt{extended_return_statement} (such as an exit or goto) does not cause a return to the caller unless it is caused by @nt{simple_return_statement} (that is, triggers the second sentence of this paragraph). The return to the caller occurs for the @nt{simple_return_statement} that applies to an @nt{extended_return_statement} because the last sentence says @ldquote@;the normal completion of a @nt{simple_return_statement}@rdquote@;, which includes the one nested in the @nt{extended_return_statement}.]} @end{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[In the case of a function, the @nt{function_call} denotes a constant view of the return object.]} @end{RunTime} @begin{ImplPerm} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00416-01]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI05-0050-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Type=[Leading],Text=[]}@Comment{This is a fake used to provide a conditional leading.} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@Chg{Version=[3],New=[For a function call used to initialize a composite],Old=[If the result subtype of a function is unconstrained, and a call on the function is used to provide the initial value of an]} object with a constrained nominal subtype@Chg{Version=[3],New=[ or used to initialize a return object that is built in place into such an object:],Old=[, Constraint_Error may be raised at the point of the call (after abandoning the execution of the function body) if, while elaborating the @nt{return_@!subtype_@!indication} or evaluating the @nt{expression} of a return statement that applies to the function body, it is determined that the value of the result will violate the constraint of the subtype of this object.]}]} @begin{Itemize} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI05-0050-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[If the result subtype of the function is constrained, and conversion of an object of this subtype to the subtype of the object being initialized would raise Constraint_Error, then Constraint_Error may be raised before calling the function.]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI05-0050-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[If the result subtype of the function is unconstrained, and a return statement is executed such that the return object is known to be constrained, and conversion of the return object to the subtype of the object being initialized would raise Constraint_Error, then Constraint_Error may be raised at the point of the call (after abandoning the execution of the function body).]} @end{Itemize} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00416-01]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI05-0050-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[Without such a permission, it would be very difficult to implement @lquotes@;@Chg{Version=[3],New=[built-in-place],Old=[build-in-place]}@rquotes semantics. @Chg{Version=[3],New=[The intention is that the exception is raised at the same point that it would have been raised without the permission; it should not change handlers if the implementation switches between return-by-copy and built-in-place. This means that the],Old=[Such an]} exception is not handleable within the function, because in the return-by-copy case, the constraint check to verify that the result satisfies the constraints of the object being initialized happens after the function returns@Chg{Version=[3],New=[],Old=[, and we want the semantics to change as little as possible when switching between return-by-copy and build-in-place]}. This implies further that upon detecting such a situation, the implementation may need to simulate a goto to a point outside any local exception handlers prior to raising the exception.]} @end{Reason} @begin{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00416-01]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI05-0050-1]} @Chg{Version=[3],New=[These permissions do not apply in the case of an extended return object with mutable discriminants. That's necessary because in that case a return object can be created with the @ldquote@;wrong@rdquote discriminants and then changed to the @ldquote@;right@rdquote discriminants later (but before returning). We don't want this case raising an exception when the canonical semantics will not do so.],Old=[@Chg{Version=[2],New=[This permission is allowed during the evaluation of the @nt{expression} of an @nt{extended_return_statement}, because the @nt{return_@!subtype_@!indication} may be unconstrained and the @nt{expression} then would provide the constraints.],Old=[]}]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0050-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[It's still possible to write a program that will raise an exception using this permission that would not in the canonical semantics. That could happen if a return statement with the @ldquote@;wrong@rdquote discriminants or bounds is abandoned (via an exception, or for an extended_return_statement, via an exit or goto statement), and then a return statement with the @ldquote@;right@rdquote discrimiants or bounds is executed. The only solution for this problem is to not have the permission at all, but this is too unusual of a case to worry about the effects of the permission, especially given the implementation difficulties for built-in-place objects that this permission is intended to ease.]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0050-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[Note that the mutable-discriminant case only happens when built-in-place initialization is optional. This means that any difficulties associated with implementing built-in-place initialization without these permissions can be sidestepped by not building in place.]} @end{Ramification} @end{ImplPerm} @begin{Examples} @leading@keepnext@i{Examples of return statements:} @begin{Example} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @key[return]; --@RI{ in a procedure body, }@nt{entry_body}@RI{,}@Chg{Version=[2],New=[ -- @nt{accept_statement}@RI{, or }@nt{extended_return_statement}],Old=[@RI{ or }@nt{accept_statement}]} @key[return] Key_Value(Last_Index); --@RI{ in a function body} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @Chg{Version=[2],New=<@key[return] Node : Cell @key{do} --@RI{ in a function body, see @RefSecNum{Incomplete Type Declarations} for Cell} Node.Value := Result; Node.Succ := Next_Node; @key{end} @key{return};>,Old=<>} @end{Example} @end{Examples} @begin{Incompatible83} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @Defn{incompatibilities with Ada 83} In Ada 95, if the result type of a function has a part that is a task, then an attempt to return a local variable will raise Program_Error. @Chg{Version=[2],New=[This is illegal in Ada 2005, see below. ], Old=[]}In Ada 83, if a function returns a local variable containing a task, execution is erroneous according to AI83-00867. However, there are other situations where functions that return tasks (or that return a variant record only one of whose variants includes a task) are correct in Ada 83 but will raise Program_Error according to the new rules. The rule change was made because there will be more types (protected types, limited controlled types) in Ada 95 for which it will be meaningless to return a local variable, and making all of these erroneous is unacceptable. The current rule was felt to be the simplest that kept upward incompatibilities to situations involving returning tasks, which are quite rare. @end{Incompatible83} @begin{DiffWord83} This clause has been moved here from chapter 5, since it has mainly to do with subprograms. A function now creates an anonymous object. This is necessary so that controlled types will work. @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} We have clarified that a @Chg{Version=[2],New=[return statement],Old=[@nt{return_statement}]} applies to a callable construct, not to a callable entity. @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} There is no need to mention generics in the rules about where a @Chg{Version=[2],New=[return statement],Old=[@nt{return_statement}]} can appear and what it applies to; the phrase @lquotes@;body of a subprogram or generic subprogram@rquotes@; is syntactic, and refers exactly to @lquotes@;@nt{subprogram_body}@rquotes@;. @end{DiffWord83} @begin{Inconsistent95} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[Added],ARef=[AI95-0416-1]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[RevisedAdded],ARef=[AI05-0005-1],ARef=[AI05-0050-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@Defn{inconsistencies with Ada 95} Added an @ImplPermName allowing early raising of Constraint_Error if the result cannot fit in the ultimate object. This gives implementations more flexibility to do built-in-place returns, and is essential for limited types (which cannot be built in a temporary). However, it allows raising @Chg{Version=[3],New=[],Old=[an ]} Constraint_Error in some cases where it would not be raised if the permission was not used. @Chg{Version=[3],New=[See @Inconsistent2005Title for additional changes. ],Old=[]}This case is potentially inconsistent with Ada 95, but a compiler does not have to take advantage of these permissions for any Ada 95 code, so there should be little practical impact.]} @end{Inconsistent95} @begin{Incompatible95} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@Defn{incompatibilities with Ada 95} The entire business about return-by-reference types has been dropped. Instead, the @nt{expression} of a return statement of a limited type can only be an @nt{aggregate} or @nt{function_call} (see @RefSecNum{Limited Types}). This means that returning a global object or @nt{type_conversion}, legal in Ada 95, is now illegal. Such functions can be converted to use anonymous access return types by adding @key{access} in the function definition and return statement, adding .@key{all} in uses, and adding @key{aliased} in the object declarations. This has the advantage of making the reference return semantics much clearer to the casual reader.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[We changed these rules so that functions, combined with the new rules for limited types (@RefSecnum{Limited Types}), can be used as build-in-place constructors for limited types. This reduces the differences between limited and nonlimited types, which will make limited types useful in more circumstances.]} @end{Incompatible95} @begin{Extend95} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@Defn{extensions to Ada 95} The @nt{extended_return_statement} is new. This provides a name for the object being returned, which reduces the copying needed to return complex objects (including no copying at all for limited objects). It also allows component-by-component construction of the return object.]} @end{Extend95} @begin{DiffWord95} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[The wording was updated to support anonymous access return subtypes.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00318-02]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[The term @lquotes@;return expression@rquotes@; was dropped because reviewers found it confusing when applied to the default @nt{expression} of an @nt{extended_return_statement}.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00344-01],ARef=[AI95-00416-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[Added accessibility checks to class-wide return statements. These checks could not fail in Ada 95 (as all of the types had to be declared at the same level, so the tagged type would necessarily have been at the same level as the type of the object).]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00402-01],ARef=[AI95-00416-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[Added accessibility checks to return statements for types with access discriminants. Since such types have to be limited in Ada 95, the @nt{expression} of a return statement would have been illegal in order for this check to fail.]} @end{DiffWord95} @begin{Inconsistent2005} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0050-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@Defn{inconsistencies with Ada 2005} @b The @ImplPermName allowing early raising of Constraint_Error was modified to remove the most common of these cases from the permission (returning an object with mutuable discriminants, where the return object is created with one set of discriminants and then changed to another. (The permission was also widened to allow the early check for constrained functions when that constraint is wrong.) However, there still is an unlikely case where the permission would allow an exception to be raised when none would be raised by the canonical semantics (when a return statement is abandoned). These changes can only remove the raising of an exception (or change the place where it is raised) compared to Ada 2005, so programs that depend on the previous behavior should be very rare.]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0073-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@b Added a tag check for functions returning anonymous access-to-tagged types, so that dispatching of tag-indeterminate function works as expected. This is technically inconsistent with Ada 2005 (as defined by Amendment 1), but as the feature in question was newly added to Ada 2005, there should be little code that depends on the behavior that now raises an exception.]} @end{Inconsistent2005} @begin{Incompatible2005} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0053-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@Defn{incompatibilities with Ada 2005}@b Eliminated the @key{aliased} keyword from the syntax of @nt{extended_return_statement}s, as this would provide a way to get an aliased view of an object that is not necessarily aliased. This is technically incompatible, but since the feature was added in Ada 2005 and not widely implemented, it is very unlikely that it appears in existing programs.]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0103-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@b Added wording to require static matching for unconstrained access types in extended return statements. This disallows adding or omitting null exclusions, and adding access constraints, in the declaration of the return object. While this is incompatible, the incompatible cases in question are either useless (access constraints @en the constraint can be given on an @nt{allocator} if necessary, and still must be given there even if given on the return object) or wrong (null exclusions @en null could be returned from a function declared to be null excluding), so we expect them to be extremely rare in practice.]} @end{Incompatible2005} @begin{Extend2005} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0015-1],ARef=[AI05-0144-2]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@Defn{extensions to Ada 2005} The return object of an @nt{extended_return_statement} can be declared constant; this works similarly to a constant object declaration.]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0032-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[Added wording to allow the @nt{return_subtype_indication} to have a specific type if the return subtype of the function is class-wide. Specifying the (specific) type of the return object is awkward without this change, and this is consistent with the way @nt{allocator}s work.]} @end{Extend2005} @begin{DiffWord2005} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0024-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@b Corrected the master check for tags since the masters may be for different tasks and thus incomparable.]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0058-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@b Corrected the wording defining returns for @nt{extended_return_statement}s, since leaving by an exit or goto is considered @ldquote@;normal@rdquote completion of the statement.]} @end{DiffWord2005} @LabeledAddedSubClause{Version=[2],Name=[Pragma No_Return]} @ChgNote{Putting @nt{pragma} in the syntax font is used for Assert and Pure, at least.} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00329-01],ARef=[AI95-00414-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[A @nt{pragma} No_Return indicates that a procedure cannot return normally@Redundant[; it may propagate an exception or loop forever].]} @begin{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@nt{Pragma} No_Deposit will have to wait for Ada 2017. :-)]} @end{Discussion} @begin{Syntax} @begin{SyntaxText} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00329-01],ARef=[AI95-00414-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[The form of a @nt{pragma} No_Return, which is a representation pragma (see @RefSecNum{Operational and Representation Items}), is as follows:]} @end{SyntaxText} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=`@AddedPragmaSyn`Version=[2],@key{pragma} @prag(@SynI{procedure_}@Syn2{local_name}{, @SynI{procedure_}@Syn2{local_name}});''} @end{Syntax} @begin{Legality} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00329-01],ARef=[AI95-00414-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@Defn{non-returning}Each @SynI{procedure_}@nt{local_name} shall denote one or more procedures or generic procedures; the denoted entities are @i. The @SynI{procedure_}@nt{local_name} shall not denote a null procedure nor an instance of a generic unit.]} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[A null procedure cannot have the appropriate non-returning semantics, as it does not raise an exception or loop forever.]} @end{Reason} @begin{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[The procedure can be abstract. The denoted declaration can be a @nt{renaming_declaration} if it obeys the usual rules for representation pragmas: the renaming has to occur immediately within the same declarative region as the renamed subprogram. If a non-returning procedure is renamed (anywhere) calls through the new name still have the non-returning semantics.]} @end{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00329-01],ARef=[AI95-00414-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[A return statement shall not apply to a non-returning procedure or generic procedure.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00414-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[A procedure shall be non-returning if it overrides a dispatching non-returning procedure. @PDefn{generic contract issue} In addition to the places where @LegalityTitle normally apply (see @RefSecNum{Generic Instantiation}), this rule applies also in the private part of an instance of a generic unit.]} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[This ensures that dispatching calls to non-returning procedures will, in fact, not return.]} @end{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00414-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[If a renaming-as-body completes a non-returning procedure declaration, then the renamed procedure shall be non-returning.]} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[This ensures that no extra code is needed to implement the renames (that is, no wrapper is needed) as the body has the same property.]} @end{Reason} @end{Legality} @begin{StaticSem} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00329-01],ARef=[AI95-00414-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[If a generic procedure is non-returning, then so are its instances. If a procedure declared within a generic unit is non-returning, then so are the corresponding copies of that procedure in instances.]} @end{StaticSem} @begin{RunTime} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00329-01],ARef=[AI95-00414-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[If the body of a non-returning procedure completes normally, Program_Error is raised at the point of the call. @Defn2{Term=[Program_Error],Sec=(raised by failure of run-time check)}]} @end{RunTime} @begin{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[Note that there is no name for suppressing this check, since the check represents a bug, imposes no time overhead, and minimal space overhead (since it can usually be statically eliminated as dead code).]} @end{Discussion} @begin{ImplNote} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[If a non-returning procedure tries to return, we raise Program_Error. This is stated as happening at the call site, because we do not wish to allow the procedure to handle the exception (and then, perhaps, try to return again!). However, the expected run-time model is that the compiler will generate @key{raise} Program_Error at the end of the procedure body (but not handleable by the procedure itself), as opposed to doing it at the call site. (This is just like the typical run-time model for functions that fall off the end without returning a value). The reason is indirect calls: in P.@key{all}(...);, the compiler cannot know whether P designates a non-returning procedure or a normal one. Putting the @key{raise} Program_Error in the procedure's generated code solves this problem neatly.]} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[Similarly, if one passes a non-returning procedure to a generic formal parameter, the compiler cannot know this at call sites (in shared code implementations); the raise-in-body solution deals with this neatly.]} @end{ImplNote} @begin{Examples} @begin{Example} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00433-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@key(procedure) Fail(Msg : String); --@RI[ raises Fatal_Error exception] @key(pragma) No_Return(Fail); --@RI[ Inform compiler and reader that procedure never returns normally]]} @end{Example} @end{Examples} @begin{Extend95} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00329-01],ARef=[AI95-00414-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@Defn{extensions to Ada 95} @nt{Pragma} No_Return is new.]} @end{Extend95} @LabeledClause{Overloading of Operators} @begin{Intro} @Defn{operator} @Defn{user-defined operator} @Defn2{Term=[operator], Sec=(user-defined)} An @i{operator} is a function whose @nt{designator} is an @nt. @Redundant[Operators, like other functions, may be overloaded.] @end{Intro} @begin{Resolution} Each use of a unary or binary operator is equivalent to a @nt{function_call} with @SynI{function_}@nt{prefix} being the corresponding @nt{operator_symbol}, and with (respectively) one or two positional actual parameters being the operand(s) of the operator (in order). @begin{Honest} We also use the term operator (in Section 4 and in @RefSecNum{Subprogram Declarations}) to refer to one of the syntactic categories defined in @RefSec{Operators and Expression Evaluation} whose names end with @lquotes@;_operator:@rquotes@; @nt, @nt, @nt, @nt, @nt, and @nt. @end{Honest} @begin{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0005-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[This equivalence extends to uses of @nt{function_call} in most other language rules. However, as often happens, the equivalence is not perfect, as operator calls are not a @nt{name}, while a @nt{function_call} is a @nt{name}. Thus, operator calls cannot be used in contexts that require a @nt{name} (such as a rename of an object). A direct fix for this problem would be very disruptive, and thus we have not done that. However, qualifying an operator call can be used as a workaround in contexts that require a @nt{name}.]} @end{Discussion} @end{Resolution} @begin{Legality} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI05-0143-1]} The @nt{subprogram_specification} of a unary or binary operator shall have one or two parameters, respectively.@Chg{Version=[3],New=[ The parameters shall be of mode @key[in].],Old=[]} A generic function instantiation whose @nt{designator} is an @nt{operator_symbol} is only allowed if the specification of the generic function has the corresponding number of parameters@Chg{Version=[3],New=[ of mode @key[in] and no other parameters],Old=[]}. @nt{Default_expression}s are not allowed for the parameters of an operator (whether the operator is declared with an explicit @nt{subprogram_specification} or by a @nt{generic_instantiation}). An explicit declaration of "/=" shall not have a result type of the predefined type Boolean. @end{Legality} @begin{StaticSem} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[Revised],ARef=[AI05-0128-1]} @Chg{Version=[3],New=[An explicit],Old=[A]} declaration of "=" whose result type is Boolean implicitly declares @Chg{Version=[3],New=[an operator],Old=[a declaration of]} "/=" that gives the complementary result.@Defn{/= operator} @begin{Discussion} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0128-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[A "/=" defined by this rule is considered user-defined, which means that it will be inherited by a derived type. @ldquote@;User-defined@rdquote means @ldquote@;not language-defined@rdquote for the purposes of inheritance, that is anything other than predefined operators. 6.6(6): @Defn{Number of the Beast}]} @end{Discussion} @end{StaticSem} @begin{Notes} The operators "+" and "@en@;" are both unary and binary operators, and hence may be overloaded with both one- and two-parameter functions. @end{Notes} @begin{Examples} @leading@keepnext@i{Examples of user-defined operators:} @begin{Example} @key[function] "+" (Left, Right : Matrix) @key[return] Matrix; @key[function] "+" (Left, Right : Vector) @key[return] Vector; @Comment{Blank line} --@RI{ assuming that A, B, and C are of the type Vector} --@RI{ the following two statements are equivalent:} @Comment{Blank line} A := B + C; A := "+"(B, C); @end{Example} @end{Examples} @begin{Extend83} @Defn{extensions to Ada 83} Explicit declarations of "=" are now permitted for any combination of parameter and result types. Explicit declarations of "/=" are now permitted, so long as the result type is not Boolean. @end{Extend83} @begin{DiffWord2005} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0128-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[@b Corrected the wording so that only explicit declarations of "=" cause an implicit declaration of "/="; otherwise, we could get multiple implicit definitions of "/=" without an obvious way to chose between them.]} @ChgRef{Version=[3],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI05-0143-1]} @ChgAdded{Version=[3],Text=[Added wording so that operators only allow parameters of mode @key[in]. This was made necessary by the elimination elsewhere of the restriction that function parameters be only of mode @key[in].]} @end{DiffWord2005} @RMNewPage@Comment{For printed RM Ada 2005} @LabeledAddedClause{Version=[2],Name=[Null Procedures]} @begin{Intro} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00348-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[A @nt provides a shorthand to declare a procedure with an empty body.]} @end{Intro} @begin{Syntax} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00348-01]} @AddedSyn{Version=[2],lhs=<@Chg{Version=[2],New=,Old=<>}>, rhs="@Chg{Version=[2],New=< [@Syn2{overriding_indicator}] @Syn2{procedure_specification} @key{is} @key{null};>,Old=<>}"} @end{Syntax} @begin{StaticSem} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00348-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[A @nt declares a @i.@Defn{null procedure}@Defn2{Term=[procedure],Sec=[null]} A completion is not allowed for a @nt.]} @begin{Reason} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[There are no null functions because the return value has to be constructed somehow; a function that always raises Program_Error doesn't seem very useful or worth the complication.]} @end{Reason} @end{StaticSem} @begin{RunTime} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00348-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[The execution of a null procedure is invoked by a subprogram call. For the execution of a subprogram call on a null procedure, the execution of the @nt has no effect.]} @begin{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[Thus, a null procedure is equivalent to the body]} @begin{Example} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@key{begin} @key{null}; @key{end};]} @end{Example} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[with the exception that a null procedure can be used in place of a procedure specification.]} @end{Ramification} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00348-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@PDefn2{Term=[elaboration], Sec=(null_procedure_declaration)} The elaboration of a @nt{null_procedure_declaration} has no effect.]} @end{RunTime} @begin{Examples} @begin{Example} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00433-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@key(procedure) Simplify(Expr : @key(in out) Expression) @key(is null); --@RI[ see @RefSecNum{Tagged Types and Type Extensions}] --@RI[ By default, Simplify does nothing, but it may be overridden in extensions of Expression]]} @end{Example} @end{Examples} @begin{Extend95} @ChgRef{Version=[2],Kind=[AddedNormal],ARef=[AI95-00348-01]} @ChgAdded{Version=[2],Text=[@Defn{extensions to Ada 95} Null procedures are new.]} @end{Extend95}