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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:49:59 -0500
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Marin David Condic wrote:
> I'd suspect that declaring in the standard that all tags shall start at
> offset 0 and extend for 32 bits would not cause anyone any rework.

Since the tag is often a pointer, forcing it to 32 bits
is highly inappropriate. Furthermore, it's possible that
teh layout for such objects is described by a platform
or compiler ABI that the Ada compiler needs to match.

The whole concept of representation specs on tagged
records seems pretty dodgy to me.