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From: "Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com>
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Subject: Re: accessing record element (question to the pros)
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Martin Krischik wrote:

> And if you still want to do it: The newest GNAT has pragma Unchecked_Union.
> You find a description in the texts above.

Yes, but realize that that pragma is now officially part of Ada 2005.
It's true the GNAT has it, but I don't think even GNAT supports what's
described in RM05.  (But I could be wrong.  All compilers differ in how
much of Ada 2005 they support today.)