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From: Mike Silva <snarflemike@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Enumeration representation clause surprise.
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:36:19 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jun 12, 4:52=A0pm, Simon Wright <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> wrote:
> Mike Silva <snarflem...@yahoo.com> writes:
> > I wonder then if this is an error at all. =A0IANALL, but if the
> > program makes available your specified values when queried with the
> > proper mechanism (in this case, unchecked conversion), then I don't
> > see what difference it makes how it stores the representations in
> > raw memory.
>
> The only reason I have ever written representation clauses is to
> ensure that the contents of raw memory are what some external hardware
> (or software, eg at the other end of a network connection) requires
> them to be.

OK, I understand that - so how would you pass this raw memory to the
external hardware or software?  And in this case, how did the use of
biased representations ever get into compilers at all?  Is there any
possible use of biased representations that does not fail the
requirement you have established?

I'm not arguing, just trying to understand the issue.

Mike