From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!fx23.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Shark8 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/30.0a1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Unchecked_Union record inside an other record - trouble References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <%ZaFv.493734$4k2.217556@fx23.iad> X-Complaints-To: abuse@teranews.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 21:07:07 UTC Organization: TeraNews.com Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 15:07:05 -0600 X-Received-Bytes: 1852 X-Received-Body-CRC: 4060639168 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:21583 Date: 2014-08-08T15:07:05-06:00 List-Id: On 08-Aug-14 14:28, Victor Porton wrote: > > Which compiler do you use? I suspect it is a bug in your compiler. I'm using GNAT GPL 2013 (apparently 4.7.4) > Or do we speak about different Ada code? Well, given what you just posted, it looks like you renamed "T2" to "Container". > function P (C: Container) return char is > begin > return C.R.Y; > end; Your Container type probably needs a tag. Your function P should probably be something more like: function P (C: Container) return Character is Subtype Character_T is T(K => Second); Function Convert is new Unchecked_Conversion( Source => T, Target => Character_T ); begin return Convert(C.R).Y; -- This ensures we get the character. end;