Re: Renaming versus initialisation

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

A compiler has right to optimize out the local object. I believe, it also
can optimize out initialization/finalization pair of the target in
declaration with initialization, so in the end it could be same, though it
isn't in GNAT.

I think this analysis is correct. This is compiler dependent. The only language-required difference is that renames creates a constant and initialization can create a variable.

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