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From: "Britt Snodgrass" <britt.snodgrass@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Default rep specs for record types - documented??
Date: 4 Nov 2005 12:07:20 -0800
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I've sometimes thought it would be good to just make the record
representation an optional part of the declaration, e.g.

    type Record_Type is
        record
            Field_0 : Integer_16 at 0 range  0 .. 15;
            Field_1 : Integer_32 at 0 range 16 .. 47;
            Field_2 : Integer_64 at 0 range 48 .. 111;
        end record;

I'm sure there are drawbacks but it seems less error prone and less
verbose.

-- Britt