RM B 4 95-98 Interfacing with COBOL (GNAT Reference Manual)

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6.41 RM B.4(95-98): Interfacing with COBOL ¶

"An Ada implementation should support the following interface correspondences between Ada and COBOL."

Followed.

"An Ada access T parameter is passed as a BY REFERENCE data item of the COBOL type corresponding to T."

Followed.

"An Ada in scalar parameter is passed as a BY CONTENT data item of the corresponding COBOL type."

Followed.

"Any other Ada parameter is passed as a BY REFERENCE data item of the COBOL type corresponding to the Ada parameter type; for scalars, a local copy is used if necessary to ensure by-copy semantics."

Followed.