Re: Examining individual bytes of an integer

[AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de>]

Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2018 22:18:16 UTC+2 schrieb Randy Brukardt:
> "Niklas Holsti" <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> wrote in message 
> news:g2k5fbF9thnU1@mid.individual.net...
> > On 18-10-15 13:18 , AdaMagica wrote:
> >> There is the old Dewar rule that no compiler is doing nonsense. It
> >> would be a very unfriendly compiler to not follow this advice.
> >
> > As I remember it, Dewar's rule says that the Ada *RM* does not specify 
> > nonsense, meaning that if some reading of the RM seems to be nonsense, it 
> > is the wrong reading.
> 
> That's correct.
> 
> > I don't remember Dewar saying anything similar about compilers.
> 
> Me either. Compilers do nonsense all of the time (usually not on purpose, 
> though).

OK, I stay corrected. But I still claim that it would be extremely unfair of a compiler not to follow this advice (A'Address = A (A'First)'Address with increasing addresses for further components).

I'm apt to try a wager that Randy agrees. Praps I'm gonna lose again... Tant pis!