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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8247c32bb1260c74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-20 04:40:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!freenix!skynet.be!skynet.be!news.algonet.se!algonet!news-stob.telia.net!telia.net!217.209.241.173.MISMATCH!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Holm Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Q re pack & aliased Message-ID: <20030420134018.651050df.david@realityrift.com> References: <1qmoa.3156$gK.120976@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net> X-Newsreader: Sylpheed version 0.8.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 11:40:52 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.208.105.88 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1050838852 217.208.105.88 (Sun, 20 Apr 2003 13:40:52 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 13:40:52 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36313 Date: 2003-04-20T11:40:52+00:00 List-Id: On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 01:08:13 GMT tmoran@acm.org wrote: > I need to make a packed array of aliased three byte objects. Gnat 3.15p > tells me it won't pack (or set 'component_size) for aliased objects, and > it allocates four bytes/component. How can I get around this limitation? I'm no Ada expert just yet. But what about 'Unchecked_Access or 'Unrestricted_Access? If you are doing something evil maybe 'Address would work too... //David Holm